Re: nmap in netbsd-5

[Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>]

On Sat 24 Jan 2009 at 02:14:01 +0100, Frederic Jaeckel wrote:
> # nmap -sS 192.168.0.1 -v 
> 
> Starting Nmap 4.65 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-01-24 02:10 CET
> WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to 192.168.0.1
> WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to 127.0.0.1
> WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to 127.0.0.1
> WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to 127.0.0.1
> Target* nexthost(HostGroupState*, TargetGroup*, scan_lists*, int): failed to 
> determine route to 192.168.0.1
> QUITTING!

You can supply an explicit interface to use - see the nmap manual page.

That nmap is trying too clever and thinks it is able to find out for
itself, while it can't, can be called a bug.

-Olaf.
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