Re: [NSE] ip-geolocation

[Gorjan Petrovski <mogi57 () gmail com>]

I've been rather busy lately, so I finally looked into this. It seems you
haven't uploaded the Maxmind database, Mr. Blake, which is why the
geolocation lookup didn't work.

Cheers,
Gorjan

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Gorjan Petrovski <mogi57 () gmail com> wrote:

> Unfortunately I'll be unable to look into this for at least 10 days.
> If it's not solved by then I'll get right on it. Meanwhile, Mr. Blake,
> please send us the debugged output.
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:01 AM,  <blake () marigoldtech com> wrote:
> > I was testing the ip-geolocation scripts and I am unable to get the
> expected output. Curious if this is a known issue or not:
> > $ nmap -Pn -sn --script ip-geolocation-maxmind.nse scanme.nmap.org
> >
> > Starting Nmap 5.61TEST4 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-01-15 14:56 ICT
> > Nmap scan report for scanme.nmap.org (74.207.244.221)
> > Host is up.
> >
> > Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.05 seconds
> >
> > Same results (lack of) for ip-geolocation-ipinfodb.nse,
> ip-geolocation-geobytes.nse, ip-geolocation-ipinfodb.nse,
> ip-geolocation.nse,
> > ip-geolocation-geoplugin.nse appears to be the only one that works as
> expected:
> > $ nmap -Pn -sn --script ip-geolocation-geoplugin.nse scanme.nmap.org
> >
> > Starting Nmap 5.61TEST4 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-01-15 14:56 ICT
> > Nmap scan report for scanme.nmap.org (74.207.244.221)
> > Host is up.
> >
> > Host script results:
> > | ip-geolocation-geoplugin:
> > | 74.207.244.221 (scanme.nmap.org)
> > |   coordinates (lat,lon): 39.489898681641,-74.47730255127
> > |_  state: New Jersey, United States
> >
> > Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.11 seconds
> >
> > I have not done extensive testing on these, but would be happy to help
> where I can.
> > On Jun 29, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Gorjan Petrovski wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry I wasn't able to help you in time, it was sleeping time here.
> > > I'm writing to Quova and IPInfoDB right away.
> > >
> > > Gorjan
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 04:57:54PM -0700, Fyodor wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 04:46:17PM -0700, Fyodor wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 02:36:48PM +0200, Gorjan Petrovski wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi Gorjan.  The ip-geolocation-quova includes three API keys that you
> > > > > > apparently got by free registration.  When you registered, did it
> make
> > > > > > you agree to any sort of terms of use?  Does including these
> > > > > > "secret_codes" in Nmap violate their terms?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Even if we keep the API keys in there, the script should have an NSE
> > > > > > argument for people to give their own keys instead.  Can you add that
> > > > > > and document it in the NSEDoc?
> > > > >
> > > > > These questions and the suggestion applies to the
> > > > > ip-geolocation-infodb database too.
> > > >
> > > > We needed to build a release, so David and I looked into this.
> > > > Quova's makes you agree to their TOS in order to get an API key, and
> > > > their TOS seems to pretty clearly ban this sort of usage
> > > > (http://developer.quova.com/apps/tos).  So we had to delete the script
> > > > for now.  Gorjan: Can you write them and ask for permission to use it
> > > > in Nmap?  They'll probably say no or ask for money (which means no in
> > > > the case of a free tool like Nmap), but it doesn't hurt to ask.  If
> > > > they say no or don't answer, then we'll have to make it so that the
> > > > script requires the user to input an API key as an NSE arg or by
> > > > modifying the .nse.
> > > >
> > > > IPInfoDB, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a clear policy
> > > > against this.  It didn't make me agree to anything when I tried
> > > > registering.  But would you (Gorjan) write to them and ask permission
> > > > anyway?  I've kept the script in for now, but we should do the same as
> > > > Quova (require the user to provide a key) if IPInfoDB says that we
> > > > can't redistribute a key in our script.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Fyodor
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Gorjan
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>
>
> --
> Gorjan



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Gorjan
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