Re: [RFC] Basing timeouts in NSE on host.times.timeout

[nnposter () users sourceforge net]

Daniel Miller wrote: 
> Adding a few seconds makes sense, especially in some special cases where
> some host-processing time may be required (e.g. UDP packet sent, target
> processes for X seconds, target sends UDP response). It is ultimately up to
> the script author.

FWIW, for telnet-brute to run efficiently I had to expose the timeout
as an optional script parameter. I have found that there is substantial
variablity in response latency across telnet implementations and
different phases of the login flow. Put differently, this script is not
suitable for any fixed value or even value heuristically derived from
the port-scan phase.

Cheers,
nnposter
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