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Nmap 6 Released Featuring Improved Scripting, Full IPv6 Support

Posted by Unknown on from the port-scanning-is-not-a-crime dept.

First time accepted submitter Chankey Pathak writes "The Nmap Project is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 6.00 from http://nmap.org/. It is the product of almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 5 release in July 2009. Nmap 6 includes a more powerful Nmap Scripting Engine, 289 new scripts, better web scanning, full IPv6 support, the Nping packet prober, faster scans, and much more!"

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  1. Machine learning (AI) for the IPv6 OS detection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's great to see the use of machine learning for the OS clasification / fingerprinting with IPv6. If this works out well I'd love to see a 3rd-generation IPv4 OS detection added using similar techniques. See http://nmap.org/book/osdetect-guess.html#osdetect-guess-ipv6

  2. I never did get an answer to ... by Skapare · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... the question of whether or not Nmap could be used to sniff a network before it is configured with an IP address (DHCP can, so mechanisms to do so must exist, like maybe raw interface access), to do things like silently watch what other traffic is taking place to make smart guess as to which LAN a given interface is physically connected to. This information could then be used to select the IP address it is statically configured to use for a given subnet (but without specific interface information since that can change for many reasons).

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    1. Re:I never did get an answer to ... by flux · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Well, neither libpcap nor tcpdump can do it either, they don't come with the network drivers. They are libraries/tools to access that functionality in the kernel.

  3. Don't forget Gopher! by ckthorp · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From the release notes: "Nmap now supports the old-school Gopher protocol thanks to our handy gopher-ls NSE script. We even support Gopher over IPv6!"

  4. Re:My eyes! The goggles do nothing! by Jeng · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If this is the quality of their HTML and CSS code, that doesn't give me much optimism about the quality of their C code.

    Why? Just because they didn't spend time making it look pretty for you?

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