Sriharsha Karamchati's Status Report #1 of 13

[Sriharsha Karamchati <leo.harsha93 () gmail com>]

Hi All,



This is my status report *#1 of 13*

I have mentioned the problems which I faced during my work and also their
solutions as it might be helpful for others if they face the same.


*Accomplishments*:



   1. Compiled and Installed Nmap on Linux machine in all possible ways.
   *Problems faced*: Got this warning: “config.status: Makefile.in seems to
   ignore the --datarootdir setting".Ignored it considering it as a warning
   but was unable to build Nmap /“make”  in the next step.
   *Solution* : It required g++ installation

   2.  Installed Nmap on windows using Self installer, and compiled it from
   source code.

* P**roblems faced:* While doing it through "Compilation from source code".
   I couldn't svn checkout from the given link.
   *Solution*: The reason being my McAfee Security Scan was blocking new
   incoming Internet connections.  Later on permitted it as a trusted
   connection and it worked fine.

   3. Learnt Lua to a good extent from
   http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/readme.html and started practicing it.
   4. Started reading the Nmap reference guide as suggested by the mentor.





*Priorities:*



   1. Implement some improvements to dns-ip6-arpa.nse, as describe at
   http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q2/45.
   2. Also consider a move to "fire and forget" logic.
   3. Fixing service detection so it can handle 0-byte captures without
   crashing.
   4. Fixing a segmentation fault in Ncat when scanned with the SSL NSE
   scripts



*Note* : I will be away for this coming week from May 25th and will be back
on June 3rd  morning. I will be submitting my status report #2 of 13 on
June 5th . Discussed with Fyodor and took permission for the same.





Cheers,

Sriharsha
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