Re: GSoC 2013 - Improved Port Specification project

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:24:57PM +0530, Prakash Gamit wrote:
> I am Prakash Gamit, I am currently doing my undergraduation in computer
> science from IIT Roorkee(India).
>
> One of the projects I want to work during GSoC is * Improved port
> specification *
>
> The projects is about taking union of -p and --top-ports.
>
> The way it currently works is -p specifies list of ports to scan and
> --top-ports specifies how many top ports from that list get scanned.
> So
> $ nmap -p1234,5678,1111,4321 --top-ports 2 <ip-address>
> scans top two ports(1111,1234 in this case) of the list given with -p.
>
> see this thread => http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/382
>
> Should this feature be removed in favour of taking union or do I have to
> find another way to take union of --top-ports and -p.

I think that feature should be removed in favor of taking the union.

David Fifield
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