Re: [dev] Re: Simple port scanner again (was: GSoC 2010)

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 03:33:53PM +0300, anonymous wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 03:25:38PM -0600, eze.programmer_AT_gmail.com wrote:
> > I think this is a good project idea, and it would prove more than useful
> > also im looking forward to the simple port scanner, these project ideas
> > have caugth my attention.
>
> I have already posted a thread about port scanner in this list. Here is
> the code: http://bitbucket.org/noname/netscan/
>
> It can scan with TCP connect, raw TCP sockets and raw UDP sockets. There
> is no delay/timeout calculation, default delay is 1 second (like ping),
> obviously too high for most uses so it can be changed. Probably I should
> write some README and improve man pages.
>
> It's biggest problem is pthreads. main() starts scanning thread and
> outputs all scanned hosts until there is no hosts left. Then it waits
> for second thread and exits. pthreads is bad, but I don't know what is
> better.

Maybe I miss something, but why not just output results as far as hosts
are scanned? Output isn't that slow to use threads.
Received on Thu Mar 04 2010 - 18:14:17 UTC