Re: How do I test differing ports within my NSE script?

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Bob Radvanovsky <rsradvan () unixworks net> wrote:
> One thing that I've noticed is that the NSE scripts appear to target either ONE port, or a grouped number of ports 
> for a specific service (such as "SMB", for example).
>
> If I am performing either enumeration and/or validation testing against an appliance that has differing services 
> available (such as the most common of ports 80/443 [web/secured web] on TCP and 161 [snmp] on UDP, how can I 
> incorporate that into a given NSE script?
>
> I looked around the same scripts provided within the 5.35 development release, and have found nothing to indicate 
> this.
>
> How can I do this?  Any ideas?

If you want to "enumerate" the ports for a given host then you can
build a hostrule function that tests whether each port [1] is
open/closed and decide whether to run the action for further testing.

[1] http://nmap.org/nsedoc/lib/nmap.html#get_port_state


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- Patrick Donnelly
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