[Savannah-hackers] Re: [Savannah] mpscan want to be a GNU package

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address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following project was submitted to Savannah. It needs evaluation to
> become a GNU package, can you give it a look, please ?
>
> Submitter: <address@hidden>
> Project Full Name:  Multi Purpose scanner
> Project System Name:  mpscan
> License:  gpl
> Approval URL: https://savannah.gnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=2470

> Description: This is a very simply scanner coded in C language, it
> starts a MAXIP number of child process (one for each ip), it connects to
> the given ips readed from file then read the first MAXCHAR characters
> sent from the host and exits, if the host contacted doesn't send
> anything but have the port open the child process dies after TIMEOUT.
> Scan result is written in a file or on stdout.  My idea is to have a
> tool that maps a host (or more than one) and know what service is really
> running on the given port.  The scanner is very fast and have low band
> consumption, Fast due to fork mechanism.


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