Re: How can I find out who the slow host is?

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 02:43:09PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:20 PM, David Fifield <> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 02:14:12PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> > > I'm scanning 4 class C ranges and It's been doing this for a while.
> > > Is there a way to jump into an interactive mode temporarily to see who
> > > the hold up is?  I thought I used to be able to just hit <ENTER> to
> > > get more information, but that doesn't seem to be working.
> >
> > You should be able to hit 'd' to increase the debugging level or 'p' to
> > turn on packet tracing.
> >
> > David Fifield
>
> Unfortunately, I'm running nmap by calling a shell script with a bunch
> of variables and stuff in it and when I try those tricks, nothing
> happens.
>
> SYN Stealth Scan Timing: About 98.86% done; ETC: 08:45 (0:01:54 remaining)
> v
> d
> p
> SYN Stealth Scan Timing: About 98.86% done; ETC: 08:47 (0:01:55 remaining)

Then there's no way I know of. Nmap is reading those keypresses from
/dev/tty, so it can't read your keypresses through the shell script. I
would start tcpdump and see where traffic is being sent.

David Fifield
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