Re: Feature request list all IP addresses of a host name

[jah <jah () zadkiel plus com>]

On 29/04/2010 07:23, Fyodor wrote:
> Does anyone have opinions on what "nmap google.com" should do?
>   
At the very least, I'd like to see the results of the dns query to avoid
having to perform the query again.  Sometimes, I specifically don't want
to scan more than one address even if there are more, other times I want
to scan them all and printing the IPs would be a big help here.  I
wouldn't be averse to the idea of nmap quitting if I supplied a hostname
which resolves to several IPs.  Have it print the query result and let
me decide how I want to proceed.  An option to override this behaviour
and let nmap pick a single address for when I don't care would
complement this behaviour.
I definitely do not want nmap to scan more than one address if I only
specify a single hostname, but an option to do so would be fine (for
instance, I know beforehand that the name resolves to several addresses
and I want to scan them all).

I think the key thing is that if I don't know beforehand that a name is
associated with several addresses then I wouldn't know to ensure nmap
doesn't scan them all - nmap should do that itself - and I don't want to
be forced to supply an address to make sure it doesn't happen.

Best,

jah
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