Re: NPing running out of sockets

[Luis MartinGarcia <luis.mgarc () gmail com>]

Hi Patrick,

Thank you for reporting this. I'm away on holidays, but I'll fix this
when I get back, in a couple of weeks.

Regards,

Luis MartinGarcia.

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While testing the broadcast functionality per Davids instructions [1] I ran into some trouble with Nping.
> It seems as if sockets are not released properly and slowly increase with each packet being sent.
> After 252seconds I'm out of sockets on my OS X system. The error looks like this:
>
> SENT (246.2010s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> SENT (247.2020s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> SENT (248.2020s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> SENT (249.2030s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> SENT (250.2040s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> SENT (251.2040s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> SENT (252.2040s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> Socket troubles: Too many open files
> Assertion failed: (nse->iod->sd >= 0), function nsp_add_event, file nsock_core.c, line 1239.
> Abort trap
>
> This is the command I'm running
> nping --udp -p 67 255.255.255.255 -c 0 --data-length 20
>
>
> //Patrik
>
> [1] http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q4/1
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