Re: [NSE] New class of scripts -- New Rule proposal

[Djalal Harouni <tixxdz () gmail com>]

On 2010-06-25 08:47:53 -0500, Ron wrote:
> > > Net table:
> > > ----------
> > > Information passed to the new net scripts is in the net lua table.
> >
> > If this information is unavailable in other ways, we should probably
> > make it available to host/port scripts too in case they need it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Fyodor
>
> I've brought up a very similar idea a couple times, and I think it's a promising one. I'd really divide it into two 
> concepts:
> 1. There should be a way for scripts to feed ip addresses back to Nmap (zone transfer on 53, dhcp broadcast, 
> zeroconf, ntp-netmon, etc)
> 2. There should be a class of scripts that run once-per-scan (or once-per-hostgroup even?), and don't necessarily 
> require any targets. 
Yes, it depends on scripts if they need Nmap targets or not.
BTW the net table should have target fields, but perhaps we must find
a solution to not let this info eat memory, you can check the 
"Net table" section in the proposal.

Thx Ron for the ideas and I've credited you.

> I think we have enough use cases for both to justify further discussion/implementation. 
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> Ron Bowes
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