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"Illegal character(s) in hostname" problem

From: Henri Salo <henri () nerv fi>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:13:46 +0300

I have seen this before. Has there been any patches against this? Do you know why it happens?

fgeek@foo:~$ /usr/bin/nmap -P0 -sV 208.53.138.195

Starting Nmap 4.85BETA7 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-04-02 17:12 EEST
Illegal character(s) in hostname -- replacing with '*'
<snip>

Nmap version 4.85BETA7 ( http://nmap.org )

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Henri Salo

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