Re: Parallelize OS Fingerprinting?

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:11:34PM -0700, Brandon Enright wrote:
> With all of the changes going into the OS fingerprinting and the likelihood of
> tests being added I'd really like to see work done to make fingerprinting
> between multiple machines parallelized.

That is a good point, and parallelization is definitely on the agenda.

> There's probably a good technical reason why parallelization can't be done
> easily but none comes to mind right away.

The reason is just that the OS detection code was written long
ago before the rest of Nmap was set up for this sort of multi-host
parallelization.  rDNS is also aching to be parallelized.

Cheers,
-F


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