Re: Error getting nmap to read hosts from file

[Robin Wood <robin@digi.ninja>]

Not with nmap, but I've seen similar issues with other tools so recognised
that type of error.

Glad it is fixed.

Robin

On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 22:21, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff () gmail com> wrote:

> Genius.
>
> Notepad said it was UTF-16 LE. I changed it to ASCII and it's working.
>
> This was an export from our SIEM as a CSV in UTF-8, from which I extracted
> the hosts with PowerShell and lightly edited with Notepad++. I suppose
> somewhere in there it got converted, probably by PowerShell.
>
> Definitely something to keep in mind.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 3:05 PM Robin Wood <robin@digi.ninja> wrote:
>
> > My money is on file encoding, can you check what encoding the file is
> > using?
> >
> > Robin
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 21:51, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I'm getting an error trying to run a simple scan with Nmap, as shown.
> > > Running in a CMD session on Win10 20H2. Scans with Zenmap work when not
> > > using a file, as does Nmap. It's just when trying to use a file that I get
> > > this very strange output. I've upgraded npcap from 1.10 to 1.31, and get
> > > the same behavior out of both.
> > >
> > > Am I doing something ignorant/stupid, or have I stumbled upon a bug?
> > > Further information gladly provided.
> > >
> > > nmap -iL c:\temp\Hosts.txt
> > > Starting Nmap 7.91 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-06-08 14:19 Mountain
> > > Daylight Time
> > > Failed to resolve " ■1".
> > > Failed to resolve "0".
> > > Failed to resolve ".".
> > > Failed to resolve "1".
> > > Failed to resolve ".".
> > > Failed to resolve "2".
> > > Failed to resolve "0".
> > > Failed to resolve ".".
> > > Failed to resolve "2".
> > > Failed to resolve "1".
> > > Failed to resolve "0".
> > > Failed to resolve ".".
> > > Failed to resolve "1".
> > > Failed to resolve ".".
> > > Failed to resolve "2".
> > > Failed to resolve "0".
> > > Failed to resolve ".".
> > > Failed to resolve "1".
> > > Failed to resolve "1".
> > > Failed to resolve "1".
> > > ^C
> > >
> > > Hosts.txt looks like this:
> > > 10.1.20.2
> > > 10.1.20.11
> > > 10.1.20.114
> > > 10.1.20.129
> > > 10.1.20.132
> > > 10.1.20.139
> > > 10.1.20.140
> > > 10.1.25.121
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