Re: Scanme.nmap.org moved to new server (now with IPv6!)

["Luis MartinGarcia." <luis.mgarc () gmail com>]

On 05/04/2011 11:28 AM, Fyodor wrote:
> Hi folks.  Linode.com finally started offering native IPv6 for their
> virtual private servers (albeit with some major limitations), and that
> finally compelled me to move Scanme from one of our colocated systems
> to one of our Linodes.  And of course I enabled the new IPv6 feature.
> I also started a public chat server on chat.nmap.org.  The Scanme
> machine is on the same IP as the public echo and chat servers (for
> IPv4), so you get to see those running when you scan it.

This is great news! It's great to have a remote IPv6 system to play with.

I'm happy to report that it works. I've been able to access
http://scanmev6.nmap.org/ through IPv6 with no problem.

> Note that Ncat and Nping aren't found in the IPv6 scan.  Ncat might
> work if I ran it a second time with -6, but then the -6 folks would be
> in a separate channel than IPv4.  Ncat and Nping should probably be
> changed to bind to all IPv4 *and* IPv6 interfaces in server modes.

Sounds reasonable. I'll add a note to the Nping's to-do list.


> Enjoy the new system!  I hope it inspires more people to start playing
> with IPv6.

I hope so too. Hopefully, by the end of the summer, we'll also be able
to do OS detection against that IPv6 box ;)

Regards,

Luis MartinGarcia.
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