Nmap Development: Re: 'sendto' error in OSX 10.1.5

[Neko <neko () skebo ac>]

On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 07:06 AM, Carl Holmberg wrote:

> I had been working with Nmap 2.54BETA30 on the command line since 
> installing OSX 10.0.x last year without any known issues. Shortly 
> after upgrading to 10.1.5 and adding the last few security patches, 
> Nmap started returning "permission denied" errors from calls to 
> 'connect' and 'sendto'. I compiled and installed Nmap 3.00, but got 
> the same results. Ditto when logged in as root. I haven't seen mention 
> of anyone seeing this boo-boo on Google or the list.
<snip>

Don't know if this is relevant, but, nmap 3.00 worked fine for me in 
10.1.5, and in 10.2
Check your ipfw rules, that is the only problem i've had.
ipfw -a list

[18:12][nekochan () sliver ~]% uname -a
Darwin hostname 6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 6.0: Sat Jul 27 13:18:52 PDT 
2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc
[18:12][nekochan () sliver ~]% sudo nmap -sS myothermachine

Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Interesting ports on myothermachine (<ip>):
(The 1592 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port       State       Service
22/tcp     open        ssh
25/tcp     open        smtp
80/tcp     open        http
111/tcp    open        sunrpc
427/tcp    open        svrloc
548/tcp    open        afpovertcp
1017/tcp   open        unknown
2049/tcp   open        nfs
3306/tcp   open        mysql

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 23 seconds


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