Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[BandiPat <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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!
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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
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