Re: Installation of nmap on HP UX 11.31

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 05:21:26PM +0100, David Meyer wrote:
> Hello Nmap development/support team
>
> I would like to install nmap-4.76. To do so I downloaded the build
> dependencies like gmake gcc ... and did
> # ./configure
> # gmake
> # gmake install
>
> after the successful installation I get the following error:
>
> # nmap google.com
>
> Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-11 17:16 MEZ
>
> Warning: File ./nmap-services exists, but Nmap is using
> /usr/local/share/nmap/nmap-services for security and consistency
> reasons.  set NMAPDIR=. to give priority to files in your local
> directory (may affect the other data files too).
>
> Warning: Hostname google.com resolves to 3 IPs. Using 74.125.45.100.
>
> getsysroutes: route_loop() failed
>
> QUITTING!
>
> I did not found any advice to resolve that problem. Could you please be
> so kind to help me and tell me what I could do to use nmap on my HP UX
> box.

Nmap uses libdnet to get system routes on most platforms. According to
the file libdnet-stripped/TODO, getting routes should be supported on
HP-UX. There is even a file src/route-hpux.c.

Maybe something changed in this newer version of HP-UX. From looking at
the code, it looks like it is trying to read the file /dev/ip. Do you
have /dev/ip, and what are its contents?

David Fifield

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