Re: nmap OS detection providing different results

[Houcem HACHICHA <houcem.hachicha () gmail com>]

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 5:05 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 12:00:52PM -0400, Ryan Giobbi wrote:
>
> Excellent, thanks. I think people underestimate how important corrected
> signatures are.
>
> True. In fact when that "submit signature" pops up in Nmap, one says "how's
my signature gonna change the Super Duper Nmap signature DB?" . Another
issue is that in 99% of the cases we don't actually scan OSs that we know
beforehand.
IMHO it would be efficient to emphasis the signature-submission, using a
"Nmap needs you" on the website for example.



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