Nmap Development: Re: -sT on windows

From: David Fifield <david_at_bamsoftware.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:30:28 -0700

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 03:16:35AM +0000, jah wrote:
> As to the Unknown Error:
> This seems to refer to errbuf in PacketTrace::traceConnect in tcpip.cc:771
> Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong?
> The error occurs in 4.20 too, so it's not a recently introduced bug.
> Whatever it is prevents further packet tracing.

That's because Windows returns an unhandled error code, WSAEWOULDBLOCK,
which is not really an error but means "operation in progress." See
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q3/0417.html. It probably ought to be
changed some time.

David

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