Re: Machines on LAN

goarilla <"kevin DOT paulus AT skynet DOT be"> wrote:

The man page for nmap is an example, in my eyes,
of too much information being almost as bad as no information.
There's also http://www.nmap-tutorial.com/ .

Thanks, I'm looking at that.
It is exactly what I needed;
there really should be a pointer to it in "man nmap".

Maybe but i find the nmap manual page to be of very high quality and it
includes a lot of information.

Interesting how people differ.
"man nmap" _does_ give you a lot of information -
far too much, in my view.
I really don't want to read an encyclopedia
in order to find what command to give.

At least this man page does give some examples -
but they are all ludicrously complicated, in my view.

I rather do man nmap '/sS' 'nn' (last two are less
pager commands)
to get to the section that discusses the half-open SYN scan than to
follow some random howto.

I don't know what the "half-open SYN scan" is,
and don't really want to know.
I just wanted to know what command to give
to find the devices on my lan.

also if you execute nmap without args it'll print a pretty comprehensive
list of options.

Rather too comprehensive, for my purposes.

I think the time has come when too much information
is almost as bad as too little.


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