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Patch to make --host_timeout more useful


From: Colin Phipps <cph () netcraft com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:44:15 +0000

For people who don't want to wait forever :-), the attached patch makes 
nmap print partial results from timed out scans. It seemed a bit silly to 
me that nmap would time out a scan then silently forget any results that 
it found.

Contrived example follows.

Before:
nmap-dev/nmap-2.54BETA7% sudo ./nmap -r --host_timeout 7200 10.0.0.1

Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA7 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Skipping host  some.example.com (10.0.0.1) due to host timeout
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 8 seconds

After:
nmap-2.54BETA7-cph% sudo ./nmap -r --host_timeout 7200 10.0.0.1

Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA7 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Results for host some.example.com (10.0.0.1) incomplete due to host timeout
Interesting ports on some.example.com (10.0.0.1):
(The 16 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port       State       Service
10/tcp     open        unknown
13/tcp     open        daytime

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 8 seconds

-- 
Colin Phipps                            http://www.netcraft.com/

diff -pburN nmap-2.54BETA7/nmap.c nmap-2.54BETA7-cph/nmap.c
--- nmap-2.54BETA7/nmap.c       Mon Oct  9 00:36:13 2000
+++ nmap-2.54BETA7-cph/nmap.c   Thu Dec 14 14:58:22 2000
@@ -1061,11 +1061,12 @@ int nmap_main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
        }
        
        if (currenths->timedout) {
-         log_write(LOG_NORMAL|LOG_SKID|LOG_STDOUT,"Skipping host  %s (%s) due to host timeout\n", currenths->name,
+         log_write(LOG_NORMAL|LOG_SKID|LOG_STDOUT,"Results for host %s (%s) incomplete due to host timeout\n", 
currenths->name,
                    inet_ntoa(currenths->host));
          log_write(LOG_MACHINE,"Host: %s (%s)\tStatus: Timeout", 
                    inet_ntoa(currenths->host), currenths->name);
-       } else {
+       }
+       {
          assignignoredportstate(&currenths->ports);
          printportoutput(currenths, &currenths->ports);
          resetportlist(&currenths->ports);
diff -pburN nmap-2.54BETA7/scan_engine.c nmap-2.54BETA7-cph/scan_engine.c
--- nmap-2.54BETA7/scan_engine.c        Mon Oct  9 00:35:49 2000
+++ nmap-2.54BETA7-cph/scan_engine.c    Thu Dec 14 15:00:37 2000
@@ -1064,11 +1064,11 @@ void pos_scan(struct hoststruct *target,
     error("WARNING: GAVE UP ON SCAN AFTER 20 RETRIES");
   }
   
+ posscan_timedout:
+  
   if (o.verbose)
     log_write(LOG_STDOUT, "The %s took %ld %s to scan %d ports.\n", scantype2str(scantype),  (long) time(NULL) - 
starttime, (((long) time(NULL) - starttime) == 1)? "second" : "seconds", o.numports);
   
- posscan_timedout:
-  
   free(scan);
   if (rawsd >= 0) 
     close(rawsd);
@@ -1663,6 +1663,8 @@ void super_scan(struct hoststruct *targe
     }
   } while(changed && ++tries < 100);   
 
+superscan_timedout: /* cph - give a hint about open ports anyway */
+
   openlist = testinglist;
 
   if (o.debugging || o.verbose)
@@ -1676,8 +1678,6 @@ void super_scan(struct hoststruct *targe
     else
       addport(&target->ports, current->portno, IPPROTO_UDP, NULL, PORT_OPEN);
   }
-
- superscan_timedout:
 
   free(scan);
   close(rawsd);

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