Re: Two ideas for NSE

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 05:13:48PM -0400, Michael Pattrick wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:21 PM, David Fifield<david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> > There's a TODO item to allow doing script scanning without port or ping
> > scanning. I needed to run whois.nse against a bunch of IPs without ping
> > scanning them first, and I had to hack the source to do it. Would this
> > capability work for you?
>
> Yes it would. Perhaps this functionality would be best suited for Nmap
> anyways, as it would be easier to facilitate group scanning and
> require less work. The main reason I am looking for this feature is I
> have increasingly been tricking NSE to run when it would be easier
> just to force it to.

The patch near the top of
http://www.bamsoftware.com/wiki/Nmap/EffectivenessOfPingProbes lets you
use -sP and -PN together to do a script scan without a ping scan or port
scan.

David Fifield

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