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Your script sequentially scans ports 1 to 65535 of a given host. My nmap command line does the same. Fair comparison in my opinion. Of course nmap has more comp
by soult 15y ago
Your script sequentially scans ports 1 to 65535 of a given host. My nmap command line does the same. Fair comparison in my opinion. Of course nmap has more complicated command lines, but then again, your script would be a lot longer too if you wanted more complicated features.
Yes, you are a security professional and you don't like nmap, and you have met others who feel the same way. The reason nmap is so popular is because there are security professionals who do not share your opinion. And judging by the popularity of nmap, there are a lot of them.
- tptacek 15y agoMy script will in many circumstances outperform "yours", because nmap's default settings suck against networks that have firewalls. That's why I brought it up. I am not on a mission against nmap. I've met Fyodor a couple times. He's a smart guy. In fact: I even like nmap; I just think it has outgrown its role as a port scanner. I do think it confirms a commonly held suspicion about "security" people when they recoil in horror over ~40 lines of code "reinventing the wheel" on one of the industry's hairiest tools. "Oh my god! Code!" What I should have done is come up with a new acronym for it and then charged $30,000 for a pilot deployment to use it.