Re: RFC - nmap "crawl" feature / script

[Vladimir Mitrovic <snipe714 () gmail com>]

Hi Jason,

DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> But before I start doing anything, has anyone else ever considered
> this a desirable feature?  If so, has someone already written a script
> to handle it?

I have written a Python script that does this (and a bit more) and posted it 
here at nmap-dev (http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q1/0409.html). Check out 
that post for an overview of how it works.

This is a part of my Summer of Code proposal, and is all planned as the 
functionality of the future "network visualization" mode for Zenmap, where you 
can combine RadialNet's graphical network representation with runtime updates 
to the topology.

So, you could use a command similar to that script of mine to "initialize" the 
topology, and then aggregate any subsequent scans to the topology, without the 
need to run a new, broader scan. Or, for example, you could do a quick 
initialization of your local LAN's topology with 'nmap -p80 --traceroute 
192.168.1.0/28' and then proceed to append data to the topology by running more 
in-depth scans on each of the hosts. Good stuff! The initial design is nearing 
completion, I'll post to this list within the next couple of days, explaining 
the proposed functionality in more detail.

Cheers,
Vladimir

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