Nmap Development: Re: Zone Transfer Results

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly () gmail com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Rob Nicholls
<robert () everythingeverything co uk> wrote:
> I was testing out SVN 9146 and spotted that the zone-transfer script is
> displaying the results in a slightly strange way, different to the behaviour
> seen with 4.68. I hope it still makes sense after some obfuscation,
> basically the full stops are incorrectly displayed if they're part of a
> string (IP addresses appear to be unaffected):
>
> SVN:
> |  zone-transfer:
> |  xxxxxx\2co\2uk\0            SOA     ns1\15yyyyyy\3net\0
> server\15zzzzzz\-64net\0
> |  xxxxxx\2co\2uk\0            MX      xxxxxx\2co\2uk\0
> |  xxxxxx\2co\2uk\0            NS      ns1\15yyyyyy\3net\0
> |  xxxxxx\2co\2uk\0            NS      ns2\-64yyyyyy\3net\0
> |  xxxxxx\2co\2uk\0            A       aa.bb.cc.dd
> |  ftp\-64xxxxxx\2co\2uk\0        CNAME
> |  localhost\-64xxxxxx\2co\2uk\0  A       127.0.0.1
> |  mail\-64xxxxxx\2co\2uk\0       CNAME
> |  www\-64xxxxxx\2co\2uk\0        CNAME
> |_ xxxxxx\2co\2uk\0            SOA     ns1\15yyyyyy\3net\0
> server\15zzzzzz\-64net\0
>
> 4.68:
> |  zone-transfer:
> |  xxxxxx.co.uk.            SOA     ns1.yyyyyy.net. server.zzzzzz.net.
> |  xxxxxx.co.uk.            MX      xxxxxx.co.uk.
> |  xxxxxx.co.uk.            NS      ns1.yyyyyy.net.
> |  xxxxxx.co.uk.            NS      ns2.yyyyyy.net.
> |  xxxxxx.co.uk.            A       aa.bb.cc.dd
> |  ftp.xxxxxx.co.uk.        CNAME
> |  localhost.xxxxxx.co.uk.  A       127.0.0.1
> |  mail.xxxxxx.co.uk.       CNAME
> |  www.xxxxxx.co.uk.        CNAME
> |_ xxxxxx.co.uk.            SOA     ns1.yyyyyy.net. server.zzzzzz.net.
>
> It looks like the script itself has barely changed since January, so I
> presume something else internally has changed. Does anyone know what's at
> fault?
>
> Rob
It appears the script was relying on an old behavior that unprintable
characters would be changed to a period, '.'. The script needs to be
changed so that it uses periods instead.

Thanks,

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant

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