Re: Adding new NSE discovered targets to Nmap

[Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net>]

On 16 aug 2010, at 04.17, Ron wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:00:25 -0700 Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> > If we find proof that it is useful, we can probably just enable this
> > for all NSE sockets.  I think Nmap already sets the broadcast flag for
> > it's connect()-based host discovery and port scanning, and Ncat now
> > does this too (Ncat uses the nsp_setbraodcast() function mentioned by
> > Daniel).  So if setting this enables a useful script to work, and we
> > don't identify any problems with using the flag, then we might just
> > set it in all cases rather than provide it as an optional function.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Fyodor
> I suspect that, with the new prerule scripts, broadcasting is going to become rather common. 

I agree, I can think of a handful scripts that could use this.
Unfortunately, like I wrote in [1] I don't think changing this alone will allow the scripts to work.

[1] http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q3/413
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