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authorDmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@FreeBSD.org>2016-05-19 10:53:05 +0000
committerDmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@FreeBSD.org>2016-05-19 10:53:05 +0000
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-Doscan is a tool to quickly scan your network for machines listening on a
+Doscan is a tool to quickly scan your network for machines listening on a
TCP port, opening thousands of TCP connections in parallel.
Features
- High scanning rate: five to ten minutes per 100,000 addresses (which
+ High scanning rate: five to ten minutes per 100,000 addresses (which
are sparsely populated with hosts), with rather conservative timeouts.
- Load distribution: doscan scans the addresses in a seemingly random
-order. If your scan host is connected to a central router, this ensures
-that the load is distributed across your network, and you are
+ Load distribution: doscan scans the addresses in a seemingly random
+order. If your scan host is connected to a central router, this ensures
+that the load is distributed across your network, and you are
stress-testing just a single router, and not your edge devices.
- Low memory consumption: memory usage is proportional to the number
-of hosts which have responded so far, and to the number of parallel
-connections. The total number of addresses does not influence memory usage
+ Low memory consumption: memory usage is proportional to the number
+of hosts which have responded so far, and to the number of parallel
+connections. The total number of addresses does not influence memory usage
in any way.
- Can collect responses: doscan optionally records data which is sent
-by the hosts which are being scanned. You can even specify a regular
-expression to extract part of a server banner, and a message to send to
+ Can collect responses: doscan optionally records data which is sent
+by the hosts which are being scanned. You can even specify a regular
+expression to extract part of a server banner, and a message to send to
trigger a response (great for determining HTTP server versions).
- Extensibility: It is possible to add special handlers for TCP-based
+ Extensibility: It is possible to add special handlers for TCP-based
protocols, using a straightforward interface.
It supports scanning the vulnerable Microsoft DCOM implementation.