Re: [BUG] nping cant ping local host using LAN ip

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:48:26PM +0200, rndbit wrote:
> This info is from my clean test VM (notice ip 192.168.0.105). Nping
> fails there same way as on my main machine (192.168.0.100) so do not be
> alarmed about changed ip. Here are outputs:

Thanks for your help debugging. Unfortunately I don't think it's
possible for Nping to ping localhost on Windows, unless you use the
--unprivileged option. However the error message was unclear. I have
just made a commit to change it to
        Skipping 192.168.0.100 because Windows does not allow localhost scans (try --unprivileged).
This is analogous to the error message that Nmap displays in this
situation:
        Skipping SYN scan against 192.168.0.100 because Windows does not support scanning your own machine (localhost) 
this way.

David Fifield
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