Re: [NSE] hostmap-ip2hosts not working (ip2hosts.com gone)

[Paulino Calderon Pale <calderon () websec mx>]

On Apr 18, 2014, at 11:11 AM, Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com> wrote:

> On 04/17/2014 09:22 AM, Daniel Miller wrote:
> > Just got this bug report via Twitter: https://twitter.com/ripmeout/status/456352270850863105
> >
> > "@*nmap* <https://twitter.com/nmap> Hi! I was trying to run "hostmap-ip2hosts.nse" script but the 
> > http://www.ip2hosts.com<http://t.co/DQG3V2PasD> is no longer alive. :("
> >
> > Does anyone have information on this service and whether this outage is permanent?
> >
> > We should probably have a way to check the status of these external services and update our scripts accordingly.
> >
> > Dan
> The site is back up for now, but the question of how to detect and deal with external dependencies and API changes 
> still stands.
>
> Dan
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Hey list,

Mmm, I run the site ip2hosts.com hehe. Unfortunately I was travelling when the domain expired (duh) and somehow I 
managed to mark the emails as spam so I didn’t notice right away (duh^2). I apologise for all the trouble. I have made 
sure this won’t happen again. 

As far as monitoring all the external dependencies, what do you think about an independent script? We could also just 
make sure external scripts implement their own methods to detect changes in the data source. We have 30 external 
scripts so I don’t think this change will take us much time.

Cheers.


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