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Re: Network scan tool/appliance horror stories


From: Dan Snyder <sliplever () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:22:24 -0400

We have had ncircle scans unexpectedly crash alcatel-lucent omni-switches.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Pedersen, Sean
<Sean.Pedersen () usairways com> wrote:
We're evaluating several tools at the moment, and one vendor wants to dynamically scan our network to pick up hosts - 
SNMP, port-scans, WMI, the works. I was curious if anyone had any particularly gruesome horror stories of scanning 
tools run amok.


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