On Thursday 06 November 2003 03:56 pm, Lisciotti, Kevin wrote:
Sorry to bug you guys again, but nmap is really pissing me off. I need to use this tool as part of my daily security role. (Security Analyst)
I've never had any issues with nmap, including up to version 8.2. Now that I've installed version 9.0 it will run ok if I scan a host as a normal user, but if I su or log into root; scanning the same host comes back as 'host seems down'. What gives? I need to run root level scans.
BTW...I've tried both versions 3.30 from the 9.0 CD's and version 3.48 from insecure.org. Same results with both! =================
Kevin, Did you follow the instructions when you got the error to add the option of -P0 (turns off pinging) and run the test again? I tried my original version from 8.2 (3.00) and then built a SuSE rpm, src.rpm etc. for 3.48, which tested the same. Seems 3.48 does a bit better tests, but the results were the same either way. Now in my testing with another gentleman, we did find that there was a problem using nmap with the 2.6 kernel. He was going to see if someone had already reported the bug to the kernel builders. All in all though, the tests went well, we learned more about building an official SuSE rpm from a real spec file, not just checkinstall and more about the way nmap works. Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...