From 5ca8c50d349a3ce553e38f388ac25695360455ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fyodor Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 03:34:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] note a poor warning message --- docs/TODO | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/TODO b/docs/TODO index 6c09bb719..8bdc7d4fc 100644 --- a/docs/TODO +++ b/docs/TODO @@ -218,6 +218,21 @@ o Look into memory consumption of UDP scans with -p- and large hostgroups. See if there is a way to prevent them from eating up gigs of RAM. +o When I scan large groups of hosts with OS detection enabled, I get + groups of warnings like: + Insufficient responses for TCP sequencing (0), OS detection may be less accurate + Insufficient responses for TCP sequencing (0), OS detection may be less accurate + Insufficient responses for TCP sequencing (0), OS detection may be less accurate + Insufficient responses for TCP sequencing (0), OS detection may be less accurate + Insufficient responses for TCP sequencing (0), OS detection may be less accurate + Note how it doesn't even tell the relevant IP address, and it isn't + included in an individual host section. We should probably either + include it in the section for an individual host, like we do with + "OSScan results may be unreliable because we could not find at least + 1 open and 1 closed port", or (not quite as + good) include the relevant IP address in the error message. And we + may or may not want to require verbose mode. + o Fix the directory function(s) in nse_fs.cc to be usable by scripts and improve flexibility. [this entry added by Patrick]