Funny I have the same DNS error too :(
I run Windows XP SP2, everything is patched.
--- Craig Humphrey <Craig.Humphrey_at_chapmantripp.com>
wrote:
> Hi Saidur,
>
> > The Error:
> > E:\nmap>nmap -O ranksitt.com
> >
> > Starting nmap 3.93 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap
> ) at
> > 2005-10-04 19:30
> > Central
> > Asia Standard Time
> > Failed to resolve given hostname/IP: ranksitt.com.
> Note that
> > you can't use
> > '/ma
> > sk' AND '[1-4,7,100-]' style IP ranges
> > WARNING: No targets were specified, so 0 hosts
> scanned.
> > Nmap finished: 0 IP addresses (0 hosts up) scanned
> in 0.631 seconds
>
> I can't locate a DNS entry for ransitt.com, so I
> suspect nmap isn't
> getting an IP address, though this probably isn't
> the most logical error
> message.
>
> > E:\nmap>nmap -O google.com
> >
> > Starting nmap 3.93 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap
> ) at
> > 2005-10-04 19:30
> > Central
> > Asia Standard Time
> > nexthost: Failed to determine dst MAC address for
> target 216.239.57.99
> > QUITTING!
> >
> > E:\nmap>nmap -O yahoo.com
> >
> > Starting nmap 3.93 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap
> ) at
> > 2005-10-04 19:30
> > Central
> > Asia Standard Time
> > nexthost: Failed to determine dst MAC address for
> target 66.94.234.13
> > QUITTING!
>
> Either nmap thinks you're on the same subnet as
> these hosts and is
> trying to get a MAC address or it's actually just
> trying to get the MAC
> address of the next hop, which suggests that there's
> no route? Are you
> actually connected to the Internet via an ethernet
> connection? (Dial-up
> results may vary)
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Later'ish
> Craig
>
>
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