Re: Please Comment: General Host Input Option

[Ron <ron () skullsecurity net>]

Cory K. Walker wrote:
> I posted the following message more than a week ago but received no
> response.  I was hoping someone would comment on the usefulness of a more
> general method to specify a list of hosts in an external file for decoys,
> DNS servers, etc..
>
> The original post follows:
> ==========
>
> Is there a general mechanism for specifying a list of hosts for other
> options aside from "-iL targets.txt"?  For example, the options
> "--dns-servers" and "-D" both accept a list of hosts - but I don't believe
> that you have the flexibility to specify a list of decoys (such as
> --dns-serversL dns.txt or -DL decoys.txt).
>
> It seems that this could be very useful for a person who has already
> compiled a list of decoys.  The command-line syntax would be less cluttered.
>
> Cory

Didn't Brandon post a reply? I seem to recall seeing one, but I might be
confused.

In any case, what advantage would there be to using known decoys instead
of random ones? I personally don't see any advantage, but I could easily
be missing something.

-- 
Ron Bowes
http://www.skullsecurity.org/

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