Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997 • Hacker News Board

Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997

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Post by keyist » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 5:01 PM UTC

Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997
nmap.org

Re: Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997

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Post by rcoder » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 5:18 PM UTC

Lua embedded inside Nmap? That looks like fun:

http://nmap.org/book/nse.html

Re: Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997

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Post by sgoraya » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 6:24 PM UTC

Whoa, cool! Brings back memories from my IT admin internship days! I last used Nmap back in early 2000's after one of the programmers recommended it to me.

Time to scan ports for the hell of it! ;-)

Re: Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997

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Post by bcl » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 6:39 PM UTC

The network diff feature looks especially useful.

Re: Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997

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Post by tsally » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 6:41 PM UTC

I love how they just casually mention that they've been scanning the entire internet. It makes sense to me from a technical perspective, but quantifying the internet is still a pretty amazing thought in my mind.

Re: Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 7:30 PM UTC

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Re: Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997

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Post by bdittmer » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 7:34 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #6

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How is this not hacker news? Nmap is the port scanner / network security audit tool that everyone uses. It's a tested and true, classic piece of software.

http://nmap.org/images/matrix/reload_nmap_f.jpg

IT WAS IN THE FREAKING MATRIX!

Re: Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997

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Post by bdittmer » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 7:35 PM UTC

bdittmer wrote: post #7

[deleted] wrote: post #6

[deleted]

How is this not hacker news? Nmap is the port scanner / network security audit tool that everyone uses. It's a tested and true, classic piece of software. http://nmap.org/images/matrix/reload_nmap_f.jpg IT WAS IN THE FREAKING MATRIX!

And the person I was responding to deleted his/her post.

Re: Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997

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Post by jf » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 7:54 PM UTC

Of special note, Nmap 5.00 is now able to map IP addresses to AS numbers: "The script works by sending DNS TXT queries to a DNS server which in turn queries a third-party service provided by Team Cymru (team-cymru.org) using an in-addr.arpa style zone set up especially for use by Nmap.

The responses to these queries contain both Origin and Peer ASNs and their descriptions, displayed along with the BGP Prefix and Country Code."

http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/asn-query.html

Re: Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997

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Post by dennykmiu » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 8:43 PM UTC

We have just posted the first review of Nmap 5.0, enjoy.

http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2009/07/nmap_5.html