Re: printable traceroute results script

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:36:18AM +0200, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2011 00:32, "David Fifield" <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 01:04:24PM +0200, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> > > hello
> > >
> > > I wanted to print traceroute results on paper, so I created a simple
> > > NSE script for turning traceroute results into graphviz notation. One
> > > can then use a graphviz tool called dot to create printable graphs
> > > automatically from the data produced by nmap. I hope it is useful. It
> > > is very simple at the moment. Feel free to discus improvements though.
> > > I was not sure what would make sense, so I thought I'd put out a
> > > simple version instead.
> >
> > Thanks Toni. I think this would be better as a separate script (Perl,
> > Python, Ruby) that runs on an Nmap XML output file. Then it could
> > include the routes to mutliple hosts in one graph.
>
> It already does. Just add multiple hosts as scan targets.

You're right. I'm sorry, I thought it was a hostrule script and not a
postrule. I can see the use in a script like this, in fact I wrote
something similar when I was working on traceroute. But I don't think
it's generally useful enough to include with Nmap. Especially when
Zenmap does something so similar.

David Fifield
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