Re: Sun Service Tags Nmap Discovery script

[Matthew Flanagan <mattimustang () gmail com>]

On 22 February 2011 15:36, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> > There are two services that need to be running: stdiscover and stlisten. Run:
> >
> > $ svcs stdiscover stlisten
> >
> > to check their status.
>
> Thanks for that. I was able to test again after enabling both these
> services and it worked well for me. I've committed your script now.
> Thanks for your contribution!

No problem. Thanks for accepting it!

> > > I intended '*std*' to match in.stdiscover, but I'm not sure that's what
> > > it's doing. Anyway, it opens port 6481. I ran the script and got this
> > > error:
> > >
> > > Discovered open port 6481/udp on 10.0.2.15
> > > NSE: 'servicetags' (thread: 0x8e75ca0) against 10.0.2.15:6481 threw an error!
> > > ERROR
> > > stack traceback:
> > >        [C]: in function 'try'
> > >        ./scripts/servicetags.nse:141: in function <./scripts/servicetags.nse:83>
> > >        (tail call): ?
> > >
> > > I'm attaching a packet capture. The scanning machine sends
> > > "[PROBE] 1294721585\r\n" and receives " 6481\n".
> >
> > That is not a valid response according the the spec. Probably because
> > stlisten is not running.
>
> Nevertheless, the script shouldn't crash and lose the information that
> the UDP port is open. I changed the script so it can still return even
> if the HTTP parts fail.
>
> David Fifield

I was also working on making the script more robust but as a LUA
newbie I was struggling a little. I see what you've done to clean up
the script's output generation and make it handle errors better and I
appreciate that. Thanks again for your help.

cheers

Matthew Flanagan
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