Re: nmap 3.70 - ultra_scan() -- feature or flaw?

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 03:40:54PM -0400, Matt Repicky wrote:
> After reading the changelog and man pages I finally figured out that
> the max_hostgroup is my best option to getting back to the single scan
> functionality of nmap 3.5*. Is there any better way to allow the
> parallelism to continue while getting usable output should it run into
> a bad target halfway?

Have you tried the --host_timeout option? Tell it how long you are
willing to wait, and the slow hosts will timeout while you still get
data from the responsive ones. For example, --host_timeout 3600000
will give up on any host that takes more than an hour.

Cheers,
-F

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