Re: Nmap network auditing/exploring tool V. 2.00 released

[jogata () NODC NOAA GOV (Jefferson Ogata)]

Sherwood Botsford wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Fyodor wrote:
>
> = I have just released version 2.00 of nmap, a program for network
> = security auditing and general Internet exploration.  Almost all of the
> = core code has been rewritten for better performance and accuracy, and
> = many new features have been added.  Here are some of its current
> = capabilities:
>
> Hi.  Any idea why most of my hosts running HPUX 10.10 crashed
> during a local network scan with
> nmap -O

This is a problem also on IRIX 6.5. The machine doesn't crash but
inetd dies after one or two SYN scans. I talked to SGI about it
and they recommended turning off the tcpmux and echo ports in
/etc/inetd.conf, which indeed fixed the problem.

The bug is fixed in IRIX 6.5.2, according to SGI, and I've been
unable to kill inetd on an O2 running 6.5.2 using nmap.

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