o-----------ooO--(- Important Message -)--Ooo------------o | | | SAVE BANDWITH, SPACE, TIME & MONEY, REPLY WITH PRUDENCE.| | | o----=[ Penguin @ My - Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ]=----o --- Fyodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 18:38:24 -0500 (EST) > From: Fyodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Nmap 2.3BETA12 > > > Happy new year everyone! I hope you participated in > some of the wild > parties last night! > > I am also please to announce Nmap 2.3BETA12. This > release fixes all the > Nmap Y2K problems <G>. > > Actually it contains some cool new features. One is > interactive mode, > which gives you an interactive Nmap prompt and > allows you easily launch > multiple scans (either synchronously or in the > background). This is > useful for people who scan from multi-user systems > -- they often want to > test their security without letting everyone else on > the system knowing > exactly what systems they are scanning. Use > --interactive to activate > this mode and then type 'h' for help. > > This version also allows hosts to be scanned in > random order rather than > sequentially. This can make the scans harder to > detect and less likely to > trigger IDS signatures (especially when combined > with the timing > mechanisms to do a very slow scan). > > Another cool feature is -iR which tells Nmap to pick > random IPs to scan. > It will never terminate. For example, 'nmap -sS -p > 21,80,139 -iR' will > generate a list of random ftp/web/netbios sites you > can examine if you are > really bored someday. > > Also the .rpm versions have been fixed in several > ways and split so that > core nmap and nmapfe can be downloaded separately. > > Quick links: > http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ > http://www.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-2.3BETA12.tgz > http://www.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-2.3BETA12-1.i386.rpm > http://www.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-frontend-2.3BETA12-1.i386.rpm > http://www.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-2.3BETA12-1.src.rpm > > Here is a more comprehensive list of the changes in > this version: > > -- Added interactive mode which adds convenience for > managing nmap > sessions and also enhances privacy. Get to it > with --interactive > and then type 'h' for help. > > -- Added/modified many fingerprints including the > latest 2.3.X Linux > releases, the latest Win2000 builds, the Apple > Airport Wireless > device, and several dozen more. > > -- Migrated to RPM .spec file sent in by Tim Powers > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. That is the file they will be > using to package > Nmap with the power tools CD in the next Redhat > release. The most > important changes are that Nmap (only the RPM > version) now installs > in /usr/* instead of /usr/local/* and the > frontend is now > dynamically linked with GTK and comes in a > separate rpm. > > -- The -i (input from list) option has been > deprecated. From now on > you should use -iL <filename> to read from a list > or -iR to have > Nmap generate random IPs to scan. This -iR > option is new. > > -- The -o and -m options have been deprecated. From > now on, you > should use -oN for normal (human readable) output > and -oM for > machine parseable output. At some point I might > add -oH (HTML > output) or -oSK (sKr|pt |<iDdi3 0uTPut). > > -- Added --randomize_hosts option, which causes > hosts be be scanned in > non-sequential order. This makes scans less > conspicuous. For > efficiency reasons, the hosts are chopped into > groups of 2048 and > then each group is internally shuffled (the > groups still go in > order). > > -- Rearranged the help ('nmap -h' or 'nmap' or 'nmap > --help') screen > to be shorter (37 -> 23 lines!) and include some > of the new > features of this release. The man page was > updated as well. > > -- Fixed longstanding bug where nmap -sS > mylocalnetwork/24 would not > successfully scan the host running nmap. > > -- Internal improvements to make scanning faster > with -i (input list) > or when you specify multiple machines on the > command line. > > -- Uses faster GCD algorithm and fixed several typos > (sent in by Peter > Kosinar). > > -- Provide more information in machine/human > readable output files > (start time, end time, RPC program name, Nmap > version number) > > -- Killed the -A option (if you don't know what that > is then you won't > miss it. In fact, even if you do know what it is > you won't miss > it.) > > As always, comments and suggestions are welcome. > > Cheers, > Fyodor > > -- > Fyodor 'finger > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp -fka' > Frustrated by firewalls? Try nmap: > http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ > "The percentage of users running Windows NT > Workstation 4.0 whose PCs > stopped working more than once a month was less > than half that of Windows > 95 users."-- > microsoft.com/ntworkstation/overview/Reliability/Highest.asp > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com - Disclaimer : http://users.my-linux.org/disclaimer.html
