Nmap Hackers: Nmap 2.3BETA6

From: Fyodor <fyodor_at_dhp.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:45:18 -0400 (EDT)

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Nmap 2.3BETA6 is now available at http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

Here are the most important changes:

** Added sophisticated timing controls to give the user much more
   control over Nmap's speed. This allows you to make Nmap much more
   aggressive to scan hosts faster, or you can make Nmap more "polite"
   -- slower but less likely to wreak havoc on your Network. You can
   even enforce large delays between sending packets to sneak under
   IDS thresholds and prevent detection. See the new "Timing Options"
   section of the Nmap man page for more information on using this.

** Applied Lamont Granquist's <lamontg_at_u.washington.edu> Window
   scan patch (I changed the name from ACK scan to Window scan since I
   may add another scan that uses ACK packets and I don't want them to
   be confused). -sW activates this scan type. It is mostly
   effective against BSD, AIX, Digital UNIX, and various older HP/UX,
   SunOS, and VAX. (See nmap-hackers mailing list archives for an
   extensive list).

** Added various long options people expect to see like --version ,
   --help , --usage , etc. Some of the new timing options are also
   long. I had to add getopt_long C files since most non-Linux boxes
   don't support getopt_long in libc.

** Human readable (-o) output changed to include the time/date of the
scan. Suggested by van Hauser.

Let me know if you guys have any problems.

Cheers,
Fyodor

--
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manuals and other 'secrets' are freely disseminated the creators have
more fun, the challenge is greater, the industry benefits, and the
users get rewarded by much better products" -- Steven Levy in _Hackers_

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Received on Sep 19 1999