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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. 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!"