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by NKCSS 884 days ago
Looks nice. Only critique I would give is the fact that they use public DNS IP's in the examples to scan hosts I know they expect the target audience to know better, but you'd be surprised
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Good catch, we should indeed make that explicit.
Can you explain this? DNS resolves to an IP address, then that is scanned. What am I missing?
I think the DNS IPs are just example IPs to be scanned. You're not supplying a DNS to use for domain lookups. Using them in the example is perhaps confusing that there's some sort of DNS argument required.
It can be rude/unwise/dangerous (depending on the target) to run a scanner on somebody else’s public IPs.