Re: Scanning Class A network

From: Mike Jones (sopiaz57_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/24/05

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    You may need a bit more than a cluster of 2 386's to scan this many
    ports: (tcp and udp)

    2,198,989,438,980

    Have you looked into the Insane option for nmap using a cluster. (See
    http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/)

    Sounds like an educational institution, why dont you take over a few
    large computer labs and post results.

    tarunthenut@gmail.com wrote:

    >Hello All,
    > Recently I was given a task to carry out a port scan of an entire valid
    >Class A range (Dont ask me what the huge pool of valid IP's was for :) ).
    >The scan needed to be carried out externally, and not from within the
    >network to identify hosts and ports exposed to the Internet.
    > The problem compounded cause of the following limitations :
    >1. ICMP was not allowed in the network
    >2. The IP range was to be scanned every month for the entire port range fro=
    >m
    >1-65535 for TCP & UDP
    > After searching for a suitable scanner which could scan such a large range
    >in reasonable time, I could think of only nmap, nessus, superscan and ISS.
    > But because of the limitations stated above,all the tools took a huge
    >amount of time (ran into month).
    > I have struggled with options within the tools, tried configurable
    >parameters (host time out, parallelism, RTT etc) and divided into smaller
    >class C networks and scanned.but still the scan seems to take ages even if
    >it is
    > Any advise would be welcome :)
    >
    >Cheers
    > tarunthenut
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