Re: Can you send the Nmap Project some scan data?

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

How do you want them submitted? GitHub issues, mailed to the list or to you
directly?

Robin

On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, 19:22 Daniel Miller, <dmiller () nmap com> wrote:

> Nmap community members and developers,
>
> The Nmap Project is in need of current port scans in order to update the
> open-port frequency data that Nmap uses to determine which ports to scan.
> This data is used every time a user scans the default 1000 ports, and it is
> based on scan data that is over 10 years old. A lot has changed in that
> time, and Nmap's port data is no longer up-to-date.
>
> We are already doing scans of the public Internet for this purpose. What
> we desperately need is port scans of *internal* networks, behind the
> firewalls and NAT, from as many different sources as possible. Ideal data
> would be all-port scans (-p 1-65535), but everything is helpful, especially
> scans that include more than the current default 1000 ports or that include
> UDP or SCTP port scan results.
>
> In order to make sharing scans safer and easier, I've attached a couple of
> scripts that can be used to strip the output files of any identifying
> information, including service and OS fingerprinting results, hostnames, IP
> addresses, and traceroute data. Our preference is for XML output files,
> which can be processed with nmap-sanitize.py. If you have gnmap scan output
> instead, gnmap-convert.pl will convert it into a stripped-down XML format.
>
> I really appreciate any help you can provide in this regard. Accurate port
> frequency data will result in faster and more complete scan results for
> everyone.
>
> Dan
>
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