Re: Error report

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 04:57:15PM -0700, David Fifield wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 11:54:08PM -0400, Jorge L. Hernandez wrote:
> > I am using windows xp just installed nmap tried to scan 192.168.1.1/24 I
> > received this error:
> >
> > Starting Nmap 6.01 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-10-06 23:50 Atlantic Standard Time
> > NSE: Loaded 93 scripts for scanning.
> > NSE: Script Pre-scanning.
> > get_srcaddr: can't connect socket: The requested address is not valid in its context. 
> > Failed to convert source address to presentation format!?!  Error: Unknown error
> > QUITTING!
>
> We had another report of this, but the original reporter didn't reply:
>
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/859
>
> What is the command line that you are using? It might matter if you are
> doing script scanning, for example.
>
> The workaround for this problem is probably to scan 192.168.1.1-255
> instead of 192.168.1.1/24. However it will help if you can run some
> commands so that we can find the cause of this error.

I found the cause of this; it was a bug that is fixed in r30005. Until
the next release, you can use the workaround mentioned above. It appears
to be only addresses that end in .0 that are the problem.

David Fifield
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