Seams version 4.01 of nmap fixes some bugy related to DNS and co. Maybe, because nmap is widely used, it could be the only exception and get integrated into 3.9.
And here are the changes since 4.00: o Fixed a bug that would cause bogus reverse-DNS resolution on big-endian machines. Thanks to Doug Hoyte, Seth Miller, Tony Doan, and Andrew Lutomirsky for helping to debug and patch the problem. o Fixed an important memory leak in the raw ethernet sending system. Thanks to Ganga Bhavani (GBhavani(a)everdreamcorp.com) for identifying the bug and sending a patch. o Fixed --system-dns option so that --system_dns works too. Error messages were changed to reflect the former (preferred) name. Thanks to Sean Swift (sean.swift(a)bradford.gov.uk) and Peter VanEeckhoutte (Peter.VanEeckhoutte(a)saraleefoodseurope.com) for reporting the problem. o Fixed a crash which would report this message: "NmapOutputTable.cc:143: void NmapOutputTable::addItem(unsigned int, unsigned int, bool, const char*, int): Assertion `row < numRows' failed." Thanks to Jake Schneider (Jake.Schneider(a)dynetics.com) for reporting and helping to debug the problem. o Whenever Nmap sends packets with the SYN bit set (except for OS detection), it now includes the maximum segment size (MSS) tcp option with a value of 1460. This makes it stand out less as almost all hosts set at least this option. Thanks to Juergen Schmidt (ju(a)heisec.de) for the suggestion. o Applied a patch for a Windows interface reading bug in the aDNS subsystem from Doug Hoyte. o Minor changes to recognize DragonFly BSD in configure scripts. Thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger (joerg(a)britannica.bec.de) for sending the patch. o Fixed a minor bug in an error message starting with "eth_send of ARP packet returned". Thanks to J.W. Hoogervorst (J.W.Hoogervorst(a)uva.nl) for finding this. I guess a non-working nmap is something most here dislike. Kind regards, Sebastian
