Bug#222141: ITP: doscan -- Denial Of Service Capable Auditing of Networks
* Neil Spring:
>> 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.
I'm going to fix this in the uploaded package, thanks.
>> 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>
> I'm sure it does more, but it would be good if the
> description included things the venerable nmap doesn't do.
nmap only scans one host at a time (ping sweeps are an exception).
doscan can scan thousands of addresses in parallel (especially on 2.6
kernels, thanks to the epoll interface). The difference is quite
remarkable on larger networks (we use doscan on multiple /16s).
I'll try to be more clear in the description.
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