On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Ryan Sears <rdse...@mtu.edu> wrote: > Hi there, > > First of all I have to say that I think this is one of, if not THE favorite > penetration testing tool in my collection. It saves a ridiculous amount of > time, and is remarkably stable. Great job, and I hope you keep up the amazing > work!
:) > > It seems as though sqlmap (latest SVN revision) doesn't cache DNS information > though, causing a fraction of latency on every request. Is anyone else > noticing this? I may just have a mis-configuration somewhere, but I've > scoured around the config files and documentation and can't seem to find > anything about it. Even when I put the hostname in the /etc/hosts file to try > to bypass this latency, it still makes the query. Is there any way to stop it > from doing this? Obviously it's not that big a deal, but when you're making > 1,000 requests to a web-app, hitting the DNS server first every time does put > on significant overhead for something that could be cached after the first > query. > > I'm not sure if this is something that python itself is doing, or something > in the code that makes it happen (I'm guessing the former). Ideas? it's a python thing, but it would be a good idea to circumvent it somehow. we'll do it (hopefully) and report back. > > Also what do you guys think of possibly having the --dump option do something > like --dump-all flag but with just a single database if you supply it with > the -D argument? Just a thought (although maybe I'm missing something). good idea. we'll probably do it (after internal agreement). > > Thanks! > Ryan kr > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Xperia(TM) PLAY > It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming > smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. > And it wants your games. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev > _______________________________________________ > sqlmap-users mailing list > sqlmap-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sqlmap-users > -- Miroslav Stampar E-mail: miroslav.stampar (at) gmail.com PGP Key ID: 0xB5397B1B ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ sqlmap-users mailing list sqlmap-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sqlmap-users
