Nmap Development: Re: massping migration and you

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:25:49PM -0500, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> David Fifield wrote:
> > Hi nmap-dev,
> >
> > Recently checked in to /nmap is the result of almost two months of work
> > known as the "massping migration". These changes make Nmap use its
> > port-scanning function ultra_scan for discovering which hosts are up
> > instead of an old special-purpose function called massping.
> Hey David, I've been testing it out and it seems to work great!
>
> My only issue is that I virtually always run Nmap with debugging (just 
> one -d), because I like to see what's happening.  However, your massping 
> stuff spews TONS of stuff onto the screen about moving hosts to 
> completed list with however many outstanding probes, and 
> ultrascan_host_probe_update listing the machine and state.
>
> Is there any way you can make these come up only with higher debugging 
> levels like -d2 or -d3?  This isn't just because "I like it", but 
> because it really is a lot of lines being printed and usually that kind 
> of stuff is printed only with higher debug levels.
Okay, I've increased the threshold for some of the messages. Go ahead
and change any others that you think are inappropriate.

Thanks for giving it a try!

David Fifield

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