Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997

I love how they just casually mention that they've been scanning the entire internet. It makes sense to me from a technical perspective, but quantifying the internet is still a pretty amazing thought in my mind.

Lua embedded inside Nmap? That looks like <i>fun</i>:<p><a href="http://nmap.org/book/nse.html" rel="nofollow">http://nmap.org/book/nse.html</a>

Of special note, Nmap 5.00 is now able to map IP addresses to AS numbers: "The script works by sending DNS TXT queries to a DNS server which in turn queries a third-party service provided by Team Cymru (team-cymru.org) using an in-addr.arpa style zone set up especially for use by Nmap.<p>The responses to these queries contain both Origin and Peer ASNs and their descriptions, displayed along with the BGP Prefix and Country Code."<p><a href="http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/asn-query.html" rel="nofollow">http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/asn-query.html</a>

i _love_ ncat. been using nc for a while, but is shows its age. now i can ncat away over ssl. awesome.

Whoa, cool! Brings back memories from my IT admin internship days! I last used Nmap back in early 2000's after one of the programmers recommended it to me.<p>Time to scan ports for the hell of it! ;-)

The network diff feature looks especially useful.

We have just posted the first review of Nmap 5.0, enjoy.<p><a href="http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2009/07/nmap_5.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2009/07/nmap_5.html</a>