Nmap Development: Re: Nmap 4.20ALPHA1 - New OS Detection System!

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 03:16:58AM +0000, Brandon Enright wrote:
> I can't wait to get started testing this.  The code built cleanly but
> I'm getting:
>
> ./nmap -O 192.168.0.1
> OS scan requested but I cannot find nmap-os-db file.  It should be
> in /usr/local/share/nmap, ~/.nmap/ or .
> QUITTING!
>
> I've looked but I can't find the file either.
Oops!  Like I said, it didn't get much pre-release testing :).  Expect
4.20Alpha2 within the next 15 minutes.  Thanks for the report!

> Since I'm sure the db file will be evolving rapidly and doing a new
> release every time a few signatures are added will be tedious, perhaps
> you can make the latest db available online somewhere for us to grab as
> it gets updated.
Good idea.  I just placed it at
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap-os-db .  You can just add that
to your nmap data dir rather than installing ALPHA2 if you already
have ALPHA1.

Cheers,
-F


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