Re: Nmap 4.21ALPHA4 DNS resolve timeout

["Eddie Bell" <ejlbell () gmail com>]

On 26/06/07, Henrik Zagerholm <henke () mac se> wrote:
> So I get the same result but at a fraction of the time. The script
> just do 2 things:
> 1. nmap -sP -n 192.168.1.0/24 (avoiding DNS resolve)
> 2. Passing the active adresses one by one to nmap again nmap -sL (IP-
> adress)
>
> Done!
> How can this be?

List scan does not actually ping the host it only makes sure the ip
address is valid and tries to find the hostname. This is why you
didn't get the "appears to be up" output for -sL

hope this helps
 - eddie

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