From e52e6935d6094999a5f9d6de1f1ec846ad854e76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fyodor Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:35:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add the nse broadcast socket support idea discussed on nmap-dev --- todo/nmap.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/todo/nmap.txt b/todo/nmap.txt index e6462c865..f514de840 100644 --- a/todo/nmap.txt +++ b/todo/nmap.txt @@ -80,6 +80,14 @@ o [NSE] In the same way as our -brute scripts limit their runtime by Of course there could (probably should) still be options to enable more intense qscanning. +o [NSE] We should probably enable broadcast scripts to work better by + (initial thoughts): + 1) Change NSE to always set nsp_setbroadcast() on new sockets + 2) Change nsock to create real sockets at time of nsi_new so you can + bind to them. + See this thread (only some of the messages involve broadcast + support): http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q3/357 + o [NSE] Maybe we should create a script which checks once a day whether similar tools (Metasploit, Nessus, OpenVAS, etc.) have any new modules, and then mails out a list of them with the description