Nmap Development: [PATCH] Report ICMP TTL Exceeded messages

[Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>]

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Developers,

Attached is a patch to detect when probes are lost to the abyss because
their TTL was exceeded.  I wrote this patch to detect route loops on
our network but I figure it will be useful in general.

The output looks something like:

ICMP TTL Exceeded message when sending to X.Y.147.215, possible network loop, try increasing TTL with --ttl

Right now the patch requires either verbose or debugging output to be
on but it may be desirable to print the message regardless of these.

The message is limited to 1 per host even if the error is received for
every probe against that host.  This patch doesn't do anything with the
port state but I can see it doing a 'newstate = PORT_FILTERED;' if
others think that's accurate or useful.

Brandon

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