Re: [NSE] Categories for dns-update?

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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On 04/13/2014 02:03 PM, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Daniel Miller
> <bonsaiviking () gmail com> wrote:
> > List,
> >
> > The dns-update script () is currently in the "discovery" and
> > "safe" categories. Should we add "intrusive" since the script
> > modifies the zone data? What other category changes would be
> > appropriate?
>
> We have a unwritten policy that safe and intrusive are mutually 
> exclusive and absolute complements of each other (that is, a script
> is either "safe" or "intrusive"). So if dns-update is "intrusive",
> we should also remove "safe".

Well, I don't know if I'd call it a strictly unwritten policy:

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q2/680

Cheers,
Kris Katterjohn
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