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nmap looping (3.96BETA1)
From: Michael Hornung <hornung () cac washington edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:14:15 -0800 (PST)
I am experiencing a reproducible but not consistent problem running 3.96BETA1 that I never experienced with prior releases, and I believe it is related to the new max_retries option. This is on i386 Linux 2.4. When I initiate single scan instances, it has worked fine so far. On one project, though, I'm running about 50 instances of nmap in parallel, each with the same arguments. Only occasionally will one of the processes continue running and never quit when it should. Nmap was compiled with Martin's rate limit patch, and configured with: ./configure --without-nmapfe I run the scans, one per host, like: nmap -PE -sS -O -T4 --min_parallelism 70 --max_parallelism 200 \ --initial_rtt_timeout 100 --max_rtt_timeout 100 --osscan_limit \ --max_retries 3 --datadir /home/hornung/nmap/src/nmap-3.96BETA1 \ -vv -d9 xx.yy.zz.73 What I will find on occasion (and can reproduce with some success if I fire up several parallel scan instances) is that nmap eventually prints: Warning: Finishing early because retransmission cap hit. But then it continues doing something, and the process does not quit, and thus the results are never printed. Looking at the debugging output, eventually nmap is just printing this over and over again: **TIMING STATS**: IP, probes active/freshportsleft/retry_stack/outstanding/retra nwait/onbench, cwnd/ccthresh/delay, timeout/srtt/rttvar/ Groupstats (1/1 incomplete): 0/*/*/*/*/* 70.00/2/* 100000/462/114 xx.yy.zz.73: 0/0/1124/0/0/0 70.00/2/5 100000/462/114 The number of probes on the retry stack never decrease or time out. I have a core dump and a ~39MB log of that scan (until I sent it a SIGQUIT) if it would be helpful to see those. Or should I try getting 3.999 to compile (though I had trouble with libpcre this morning) and see if it can be reproduced with that? Either way, would other information be helpful in untangling this? Thanks. -Mike Hornung _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
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