Re: NMAP Feature Request

Try this:

nmap -n -sP -PB -PR -oX <filename.xml>

It works pretty well for fast host discovery

-Jake Schneider

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 12:08 -0700, Mark Maxey wrote:
> Perhaps this is already in nmap and I haven't figured out how to do it
> yet.
> 
> Could someone add an option to perform do the following.
> 
> Ping a host, if the host is down move forward with a port scan. If an
> open port is identified stop scanning that host and move onto the next
> one in the list. Basically a really fast discovery scan that only notes
> if the host is up. Is there any way to achieve this type of scan with
> nmap right now? I don't want to identify open ports, just scan until it
> finds an open port on a host, then note the host is alive and move onto
> the next host.
> 
> This would be extremely helpful in performing large discovery scans on
> huge networks.
> 
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