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Re: Network Scanning

David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Sat, 05 April 2008 19:55 UTC

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Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:55:11 +0100
From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Brian McGehee <doc@tavian.com>
Subject: Re: Network Scanning
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:01:16PM -0700, Brian McGehee wrote:
> Answer with it's link-local address, which is probably not the goal.

In that case use a Node Information Query for either the hostname
or list of addresses. KAME stacks support requests for the hostname,
which often proves useful. I don't use requests for address very often.

	David.
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