Florian, On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 02:10:21PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > * Package name : doscan > Version : x.y.z > Upstream Author : Florian Weimer > * URL : http://www.enyo/fw/software/doscan/ > * License : GPL > Description : Denial Of Service Capable Auditing of Networks this short description doesn't suggest "port scanner" to me. the acronym expansion seems better in the long description, and the "tool to discover TCP services on your network" better in the short. > doscan is a tool to discover TCP services ony our network. It is > designed for scanning a single ports on a large network. (There are > better tools for scanning many ports on a small set of hosts, for > example nmap.) nmap -p <port I care about> <network prefix I want to scan> > doscan uses a random scatter technology to distribute the load across > the network. Within a given prefix, hosts are not scanned sequentially, > but in a random???looking, but reproducible order. As a result, doscan > will not stress???test the network edge (just the next hop). nmap --randomize_hosts -p <port I care about> <network prefix I want to scan> I'm sure it does more, but it would be good if the description included things the venerable nmap doesn't do. thanks, -neil
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