Re: [NSE] DoS script: smb-flood.nse

[Jacky Jack <jacksonsmth698 () gmail com>]

No worry.

Users can have a choice to scan with

--script=smb_dos --script-args=unsafe=1




On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:33 PM, alexandru <alex () hackd net> wrote:
> On 2010-09-24, at 7:46 AM, Ron wrote:
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> > I discovered yesterday that most SMB servers have a global connection limit of about 11 users. After that limit's 
> > reached, it seems that everybody has to wait for somebody to leave. To test how programs react to an exhausted 
> > connection list, I was getting tired of opening a dozen smbclient instances so I threw together smb-flood.nse.
> >
> > Any thoughts? It's another unusual script, because it has a very specific purpose (and, in fact, never ends). I 
> > don't know how useful it is to include, but it definitely has a use.
>
> Maybe this marks a need to host some kind of script repository that includes one-off, special purpose scripts that 
> might not need to be distributed with Nmap (because that kind of implies supporting those scripts) but otherwise 
> interesting to some percentage of users? Could even be that most (new) unsafe scripts aren't shipped, so that nobody 
> 'accidentally' starts crashing machines.
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> Cheers!
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> P.S. Apologies if this issue has been previously discussed
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