Re: [NSE] hostmap-robtex and http-robtex-reverse-ip -- Same thing?

[Fyodor <fyodor () nmap org>]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>wrote:

> List,
>
> I got a report from "pirate--" on IRC that the robtex.com service had
> changed their page structure, and the hostmap-robtex NSE script was not
> working. I came up with a fix (http://pastebin.com/D9a5kYSh)**, but when
> trying to update the rest of the scripts, I couldn't identify what was
> different between hostmap-robtex and http-robtex-reverse-ip. Neither of
> them actually parse the PTR records in the output.
>
> Can anyone tell me what's supposed to be different between these, or
> should we just remove one of them? (Perhaps one of the nmap.org web
> admins could check the logs for which nsedoc page receives more hits?)

Hi Dan, good catch.  From looking at the thread where we introduced
hostmap-robtex (http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q2/20), I think we didn't
remember that http-robtex-reverse-ip existed.  In any case, I think the
hostmap version is more inline with what we want, since it uses the
specified Nmap targets rather than requiring a script arg.  People can
always use -sn -Pn if they don't want to actually scan the host.  Also, it
matches up well with hstmap-bfk, which uses a different service.

So I've applied your hostmap-robtex patch with a little fix that I needed
in my testing and I also updated the docs a bit.  Then I removed
http-robtex-reverse-ip.

Cheers,
Fyodor
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