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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

You're reading from   Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook Network discovery and security scanning at your fingertips

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786467454
Length 416 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Nmap Fundamentals 2. Network Exploration FREE CHAPTER 3. Reconnaissance Tasks 4. Scanning Web Servers 5. Scanning Databases 6. Scanning Mail Servers 7. Scanning Windows Systems 8. Scanning ICS SCADA Systems 9. Optimizing Scans 10. Generating Scan Reports 11. Writing Your Own NSE Scripts 12. HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options 13. Brute Force Password Auditing Options 14. NSE Debugging 15. Additional Output Options 16. Introduction to Lua 17. References and Additional Reading

Performing IP address geolocation


Identifying the location of an IP address may help system administrators identify the origin of a network connection. Nmap ships with several NSE scripts that help us perform geolocation of a remote IP address: ip-geolocation-maxmind, ip-geolocation-ipinfodb, and ip-geolocation-geoplugin.

This recipe will show you how to set up and use the geolocation scripts included with Nmap NSE.

Getting ready

The ip-geolocation-maxmind script depends on a database that is not included in Nmap by default. Download Maxmind's GeoLite City database in binary format from http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/ and place it in your local Nmap data folder (/nselib/data/) inside your installation directory.

The ip-geolocation-ipinfodb script requires an API key to query an external service. The service is free, and you only need to register at http://ipinfodb.com/register.php to get one. This service does not limit the number of queries, but connections are only processed from...

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