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KraziKid
Tux's lil' helper
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 Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 4:33 am Post subject: Two questions. One on dig, and the other on nmap. |
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In my older Linux installation of slackware (which has been gone for a while now, thanks to gentoo  ), there was a program called dig. Is there a similar program for gentoo? I tried emerge dig, and the ebuild does not exist.
Now, for nmap. My friend and I were testing each others firewall, and he was using the alpha build of nmap 3.1, and I was using the current stable version of 3.0. The alpha 3.1 seemed to scan faster, and told more info about the scanned computer. Does anyone know if that alpha release is stable? Also, is it safe to have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS equal to "~x86", or would I risk a lot of stability? I like having an up to date system, but do not want to risk stability. Can anyone who uses ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" comment on this? |
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Sven Vermeulen
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Location: Mechelen, Belgium
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| dig is provided by the package net-dns/bind-tools. nmap's alpha-release is very usuable. However, it is very important to know what the differences are between all the scans. Some scans can show like there are a gazillion ports opened, even if there are no processes binded to those ports. |
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KraziKid
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 7:42 am Post subject: |
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We ran identical scans using this command:
| Code: | | nmap -sS -P0 -v xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx |
(where the x's are the IP address.). His went it about half the time, and also told him what OS I was using, and my uptime. Do you run your complete system on ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" or just for nmap? If you run your entire system under it, is it fairly stable? |
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rtn
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| KraziKid wrote: | We ran identical scans using this command:
| Code: | | nmap -sS -P0 -v xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx |
(where the x's are the IP address.). His went it about half the time, and also told him what OS I was using, and my uptime. Do you run your complete system on ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" or just for nmap? If you run your entire system under it, is it fairly stable? |
Many people have posted problems with running systems using the unstable
flags. Generally, if you require any type of reliability from your system, you
don't want to to rebuilt it with ~x86. You can just set it on the command line
when you emerge nmap if you need to.
| Code: | | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge nmap |
--rtn |
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