From 9a25c8a0b41cc2321d61b2ae8bd6683901271ca7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: david Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:45:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a CHANGELOG entry for new traceroute. --- CHANGELOG | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG index 71adccb8d..8ed9a0c1f 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG +++ b/CHANGELOG @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ # Nmap Changelog ($Id$); -*-text-*- +o Nmap's --traceroute has been rewritten for better performance. + Probes are sent in parallel to individual hosts, not just across all + hosts as before. Trace consolidation is more sophisticated, allowing + common traces to be identified sooner and fewer probes to be sent. + The older traceroute could be very slow (taking minutes per target) + if the target did not respond to the trace probes, and this new + traceroute avoids that. In a trace of 110 hosts in a /24 over the + Internet, the number of probes sent dropped 50% from 1565 to 743, + and the time taken dropped 92% from 95 seconds to 7.6 seconds. [David] + o Added a script called http-malware-host.nse. Its future intention is to discover hosts that are serving malware (for example, that are compromised and have malicious code inserted). At the moment,