NSE Host Groups and Previous Host Accessibility

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

Hi List,

Right now NSE keeps old hosts in the "current_hosts" table (in the Lua
Registry [1]) even after the current host group has finished. This
means that scripts can modify these hosts (change port version, port
state, etc.) in a different host group. There are possibly some good
reasons for doing this and possibly some scripts already doing this. I
wondered if anyone would be against disallowing the use of hosts from
an old host group (as I believe it was originally intended) in the
future.

[1] http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#3.5

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

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