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Nmap Development: Re: Time to lose gen1 OS detection?

Re: Time to lose gen1 OS detection?

From: Jens Link <lists_at_quux.de>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:04:44 +0100

Diman Todorov <diman.todorov_at_univie.ac.at> writes:

> I would argue that old versions of Nmap are still available for
> download. Nostalgic scans can still be performed with these. I don't
> think that looking for old boxes is the main use case of Nmap.

Well it might not be the main use for nmap but it is one. I like to use
nmap to see what is out there on the network I'm testing and most of the
time there are many old boxes which I like to identify. And I don't like
the thought of using two different nmap versions for this.

cheers,

Jens

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