Re: Refactoring changes to target parsing

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 03:30:52PM -0600, Daniel Miller wrote:
> I think another appropriate direction would be to extend the
> "targets" NSE library to allow the creation of these NetBlock
> subclasses, so that scripts that have "newtargets" functionality can
> add net blocks, not just individual addresses. If both our ideas get
> implemented, then we're in the beautiful world where NSE scripts can
> be used to quickly implement and test functionality to be imported
> into core Nmap at a later time.

We are already in this world, are we not? I mean, you can already do
        target.add("192.168.0.0/24")
        target.add("fe80::/64")
and those targets will be parsed into NetBlocks (formerly TargetGroups).

What we don't have is a way to pass such structures to NSE for host
discovery or port scanning. Anyway, for this feature it matters little,
because the targets-ipv6-multicast scripts already have as much
prototyping as we're going to do on those ideas.

David Fifield
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