Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute)

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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On 03/23/2010 12:30 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 06:19:34PM +0100, Fredrik Pettai wrote:
> > Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-03-23 18:05 CET
> > Warning: Traceroute does not support idle or connect scan, disabling...
> > PORTS: Using top 1000 ports found open (TCP:1000, UDP:0, SCTP:0)
>
> The answer here is the line "Warning: Traceroute does not support idle
> or connect scan, disabling...". Traceroute needs to be run as root. This
> has surprised me more than once too. Maybe we should treat this as a
> fatal error, just like when someone asks for -O as a non-root user?

I can't currently think of any objections to this.  Other things bail when
root or IPv6 support is needed but unavailable, so this had might as well too
(especially if something post port scan like OS detection does it as you
mentioned).

> David Fifield

Cheers,
Kris Katterjohn

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