This changes the DNS engine to use addto_etchosts to add entries from
/etc/hosts into the DNS cache, rather than just inserting them using
push_front.
The reason for this is that there is a static unsigned variable in
addto_etchosts that keeps track of how many entries there are in the
cache. Using push_front bypassed this variable, allowing the entries in
/etc/hosts to sneak in under the radar. Thus is was possible for the
cache to contain, say, 266 entries when it thought it only had 256.
When the cache size is greater than or equal to 256, addto_etchosts runs
a deletion pass aiming to reduce the number of entries to 126. But the
peculiar loop logic of that function means that more than 256 entries
can be deleted. (How many more depends in part on how many entries there
are in /etc/hosts. There must be at least one for the hang to occur.)
When this happens, the signed counter underflows and becomes large
positive, ~65000. The code empties the cache trying to get the counter
under 127, but it can never happen.
To reproduce the hang, make an /etc/hosts file like this:
1.0.0.1 host-1-1
1.0.0.2 host-1-2
1.0.0.3 host-1-3
1.0.0.4 host-1-4
1.0.0.5 host-1-5
1.0.0.6 host-1-6
1.0.0.7 host-1-7
1.0.0.8 host-1-8
1.0.0.9 host-1-9
1.0.0.10 host-1-10
2.0.0.1 host-2
3.0.0.1 host-3
...
254.0.0.1 host-254
255.0.0.1 host-255
The hang can occur with even one entry in /etc/hosts, but saturating the
cache like this makes the hang less dependent on network conditions.
Then list-scan a netblock that is greater in size than 256 and is dense
in DNS entries (at least 256 entries per 4096 IP addresses). For
example,
nmap -sL scanme.nmap.org/22
works for me currently.
line, since this can differ from the reverse DNS results. It can be
particularly important when doing HTTP tests against virtual hosts.
The data can be accessed from target->HostName() from Nmap proper
and host.targetname from NSE scripts. The NSE HTTP library now uses
this for the Host header. Thanks to Sven Klemm for adding this
useful feature.
with http.get_url() or create more complex requests with
http.request(). There is also an http.get() function which takes
components (hostname, port, and path) rather than a URL. The
HTTPAuth, robots, and showHTMLTitle NSE scripts have been updated to
use this library. Sven Klemm wrote all of this code.
groups are now counted and shown in the "Host Details" tab. The
closed, filtered and scanned port counts in this tab didn't contain
this information before so they were usually very inaccurate. [Kris]
The "Scan Details" tab was fine.
