Re: massping migration and you

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:59:16PM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
> Recently checked in to /nmap is the result of almost two months of work
> known as the "massping migration". These changes make Nmap use its
> port-scanning function ultra_scan for discovering which hosts are up
> instead of an old special-purpose function called massping.

That is great!  In addition to the benefits you mentioned, this will
help us remove some annoying ping scan limitations in the future.  For
example, you can currently only ping scan a dozen or so ports because
massping() just wasn't set up to scale beyond that level.

> gotten much testing from users. Fyodor tells me that this will be in a
> release soon. So please download it and try out the new ping scan code.

Yep, I'm working on 4.22SOC6 now.  But nobody needs to wait for the
release to play with your new code.  They can grab it in SVN per the
instructions at http://insecure.org/nmap/install/index.html#inst-svn .

I hope people will give it a try and send feedback, as this will make
for better host discovery for all of us.  And now that host discover
and port scans use the same engine, discover improvements may make our
port scans faster too!

Cheers,
-F

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