Re: NSE Host Groups and Previous Host Accessibility

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:05:19PM -0400, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> Right now NSE keeps old hosts in the "current_hosts" table (in the Lua
> Registry [1]) even after the current host group has finished. This
> means that scripts can modify these hosts (change port version, port
> state, etc.) in a different host group. There are possibly some good
> reasons for doing this and possibly some scripts already doing this. I
> wondered if anyone would be against disallowing the use of hosts from
> an old host group (as I believe it was originally intended) in the
> future.

If you can modify hosts from previous host groups I think that's
contrary to intention. These are hosts whose output has already been
printed, after all. Do these records never go away, and keep consuming
memory?

David Fifield

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