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Re: Nmap unable to find appropriate interface


From: Alexander Zinoviev <jason-z () yandex ru>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:22:56 +0600


 Hi, David.

 I have some problem with nmap:

# nmap -e tun0 ya.ru

Starting Nmap 4.68 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2008-09-19 20:55 YEKST
WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to
91.144.136.69
nexthost: failed to determine route to 213.180.204.8
QUITTING!

# ifconfig
rl0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
ether 00:e0:4d:07:9f:6a
inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active

tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1492
inet 10.71.16.21 --> 91.144.136.69 netmask 0xffffffff
Opened by PID 1260

# netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default 91.144.136.69 UGS 0 13843 tun0
91.144.136.69 10.71.16.21 UGH 1 2 tun0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 560 lo0
192.168.0.0/24 link#1 UC 0 0 rl0

I don't understand reason of problem. Can anybody help?

Can you send the output of

      nmap --iflist

# nmap --iflist

Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2008-10-20 13:17 YEKST
************************INTERFACES************************
DEV  (SHORT) IP/MASK        TYPE        UP MAC
rl0  (rl0)   192.168.0.1/24 ethernet    up 00:E0:4D:07:9F:6A
lo0  (lo0)   127.0.0.1/8    loopback    up
tun0 (tun0)  10.71.16.21/32 point2point up

WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to 
91.144.136.69
**************************ROUTES**************************
DST/MASK         DEV  GATEWAY
91.144.136.69/32 tun0 10.71.16.21
127.0.0.1/32     lo0  127.0.0.1

With best regards, 
Alexander Zinoviev.


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