Ok, repeating what I said in the CB...

A "port scanner" is like a "ping scanner". Most admins I know see these as primarily hackerz toolz for the script kiddies to find the next box to crack.

While I appreciate the effort of /dev/null, I don't want the Monastery to be seen as a place that harbors or supports warezkiddies and scriptkiddies.

And that was my initial reaction to this post.

Beyond that, I don't mind "reinvention of the wheel" if it is clear that the post is for comment only, and that the poster has clearly surveyed the area in which he or she is reinventing. I didn't see that happening here, although I could certainly be wrong. It looked like a tool written by someone who wasn't aware of existing cool tools already occupying the space. If the description had included "this duplicates one of the functions of nmap, but I just wanted to see if I could write it", I'd have no complaints (along that axis, but the warez comment still stands regardless).

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to •Re: Re: •Re: pscanner.pl by merlyn
in thread pscanner.pl by /dev/null

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