Re: [NSE] ms-sql-info broadcast split

[Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net>]

On 23 nov 2010, at 00.10, David Fifield wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:56:24PM +0100, Patrik Karlsson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been working on splitting the broadcast functionality from the ms-sql-info script for a while.
> > I decided to make the broadcast script somewhat different than the unicast script, hence the different name.
> > The foremost reason is that I would like the broadcast script to be non intrusive and just discover hosts and 
> > instances.
> > Unfortunately I came to this conclusion after doing considerable work on the ms-sql-info script to make it more 
> > suitable for re-using the code in both scripts.
> > During the process I also managed to fix a few bugs that I've run into during the last few weeks so maybe its not 
> > all bad.
> >
> > The script supports the newtargets option and can be used like this to scan all SQL servers on the network using all 
> > of the ms-sql scripts:
> > sudo ./nmap -PN -sT -p U:1434,T:1433 --script broadcast-mssql-discover,ms-sql-* -d3 --script-args newtargets
> >
> > Anyway, In order to split out the broadcast functionality we could either use this re-worked new ms-sql-info script 
> > or we would simply revert to a version before the broadcast code was added.
> > Any thoughts or feedback on this is most welcome!
>
> Is there any reason to use the older version? It sounds like the
> rewritten version is preferable.

No, I don't think so. I hope the new version is preferable.

> David Fifield
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