RE: ncat --max-conns

[Jon Greaves <jon_greaves () hotmail com>]

windows and i'm running version 5 of nmap

JonnyG

> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:00:52 -0600
> From: david () bamsoftware com
> To: jon_greaves () hotmail com
> CC: nmap-dev () insecure org
> Subject: Re: ncat --max-conns
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:57:44PM +0000, Jon Greaves wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:41:38AM +0000, Jon Greaves wrote:
> > > > I've just started playing ncat and am running into something odd with
> > > > --max-conns the documantation suggest the this command does the
> > > > following "Maximum n simultaneous connections". My ncat redirection
> > > > runs quite happily until for several hours then stops accepting
> > > > connection with the following error
> > > >
> > > > New connection denied: connection limit reached (100)
> > > >
> > > > I guess this makes sense but I'm pretty sure I don't have 100
> > > > simultaneous connections via ncat as each connection should be being
> > > > closed down after connection am I missing something or is there a
> > > > value i can use with --max-conns that tells it to just accept
> > > > unlimited connections.
> > >
> > > Thanks for this report. What is the command line that you use?
> >
> > ncat -l server1 143 --max-conns 100 --sh-exec "ncat --ssl imap.gmail.com 993"
> >
> > I know 100 is the default but if you set it to say 10 you get the same
> > behaviour it kind of feels like its doing a count of total connections rather
> > that simultaneous connections
>
> Another question: is this on Windows or another operating system?
>
> David Fifield

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