[157598] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network scan tool/appliance horror stories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Snyder)
Tue Oct 30 11:23:05 2012
In-Reply-To: <7EF4A8B03B0A3A44858C8B42E0DB236A0121BCA40E2B@PHX-52N-EXM04A.lcc.usairways.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:22:24 -0400
From: Dan Snyder <sliplever@gmail.com>
To: "Pedersen, Sean" <Sean.Pedersen@usairways.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We have had ncircle scans unexpectedly crash alcatel-lucent omni-switches.
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Pedersen, Sean
<Sean.Pedersen@usairways.com> wrote:
> We're evaluating several tools at the moment, and one vendor wants to dynamically scan our network to pick up hosts - SNMP, port-scans, WMI, the works. I was curious if anyone had any particularly gruesome horror stories of scanning tools run amok.
