Re: Nmap SoC Ideas? Interactivity/phase cancellation

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:18 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:00:22AM -0500, Ron wrote:
> > That remind me of something else I was thinking of.
> >
> > o More interactive options during the scan (like d/D for debug, etc) -- options for raising the min-rate/max-rate 
> > and other timing options would be handy.
>
> You just reminded me of something too. I want an interactive button to
> stop the current scan phase (port scan, service scan, etc.) and move on
> to the next. It would be like Ctrl-C but only apply to the current
> phase. So if you find out that one host is dragging down service scan,
> for example, you could just kill it after the other hosts have
> completed. You wouldn't have to restart the whole scan without -sV, and
> the other hosts would still have service scan results.
>
> This could be simulated by instantly fill up the host timeout of all
> uncompleted hosts. It would be better, though, if it would still display
> partial information for the hosts that got skipped (i.e., just omit the
> service information), and permit those hosts to participate in later
> scan phases.
>
> I'm calling this "phase cancellation" because that has a totally
> unrelated meaning in other technical contexts.

I really like this idea. Would be very useful for runaway NSE scans too.

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- Patrick Donnelly
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