Re: 3.59ALPHA7: About to go gold

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 01:06:44PM -0700, Grishnav wrote:
> This may be fixed in ALPHA7, but it wasn't noted in the changelog.
>
> server1:~/nmap-dev/bin# ./nmap -vv -iR -p 80

-iR was changed a while back to take an argument specifying how many
hosts you wish to scan. Zero means unlimited. This prevents people
from accidently starting an -iR scan then forgetting about it until
they receive enraged mail (or disconnection) from their ISP :).

In this case, Nmap treats "-p" as the argument to -iR, and atoi("-p")
is zero. I have fixed it for the next version to give an appropriate
error:

# ./nmap -vv -iR -p 80
ERROR: -iR argument must be the maximum number of random IPs you wish to scan (use 0 for unlimited)
QUITTING!
#

Cheers,
-F

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