RE: [Bug]? -iR <num_hosts> on windows XP generates duplicate targets

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> From: nmap-dev-bounces_at_insecure.org
> [mailto:nmap-dev-bounces_at_insecure.org] On Behalf Of Brandon Enright
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:38 PM
> To: Fyodor
> Cc: nmap-dev; jah; bmenrigh_at_ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: [Bug]? -iR <num_hosts> on windows XP generates
> duplicate targets
>
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> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:30:30 -0700 or thereabouts Fyodor
> <fyodor_at_insecure.org> wrote:
>
> > I just checked in this fix, which seems to fix the problem in my
> > testing. I moved the Nmap srand to be much earlier in the code to
> > reduce the chances of it clobbering other srand() calls, and I also
> > made it unique from the srand() call used by nbase. Thanks
> to Jah and
> > Brandon for your help.
> >
>
> Hmm, I don't think we're out of the woods yet. I think we're hitting
> a very short cycle problem of Visual Studio's rand LCG that won't show
> up using GCC on Linux.
>
> We may need to use rand_s() on Windows.
>
> I just sent a follow up note to your previous one. I don't have a
> Windows dev box or I'd help test this.
>
> Brandon
>

The new code certainly looks better on my system: Windows XP Pro SP2
w/VS Express 2005

Nmap 4.60 downloaded from nmap.org:

Thomas Buchanan_at_xp-shuttle /cygdrive/d/Utils/nmap-4.60
$ for i in 100 200 400 600 800 1200 1600 3200 6400 10000 100000 ; do
COUNT=`./nmap -n -sL -iR $i | egrep '^Host' | sort -u |wc -l`; echo $i
$COUNT; done
100 100
200 200
400 351
600 354
800 432
1200 843
1600 1258
3200 2863
6400 6035
10000 9637
100000 99649

Nmap built from svn at revision 7183:

Thomas Buchanan_at_xp-shuttle /cygdrive/e/Dev/svn/nmap/mswin32/Release
$ for i in 100 200 400 600 800 1200 1600 3200 6400 10000 100000 ; do
COUNT=`./nmap -n -sL -iR $i | egrep '^Host' | sort -u |wc -l`; echo $i
$COUNT; done
100 100
200 200
400 400
600 600
800 800
1200 1200
1600 1600
3200 3200
6400 6400
10000 10000
100000 99999

Thomas

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