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List:       nmap-dev
Subject:    Feedback on Ncat documentation
From:       stripes <stripes () tigerlair ! com>
Date:       2009-02-25 23:58:48
Message-ID: 20090225185848.B4283 () tigerlair ! com
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Hi everyone,

I'll go ahead and update the documentation if this is ok. I don't have it downloaded \
via CVS but I can download the HTML and do an unified diff for a patch if that's \
acceptable. I'll test the examples next.

Comments:
http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/index.html

First paragraph:
Nothing on the history of Netcat? Wasn't it originally written in 1991 by Matt (can't \
remember his last name). What about the GNU Netcat project? How is this different? \
You mention other versions of Netcat, but it would be fair to give them a little more \
history given the popularity of it.

What about UDP and TCP? Can it do both? ICMP? It says there's SSL support. How is \
this different than cryptcat? 

http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ncat-usage.html

Good, but there are other servers to emulate in addition to a web server?

http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ncat-advanced.html

The SSL example is good, but it helps to show other ports besides the standard web \
ports.

http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ncat-output.html
http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ncat-access.html

I like these, but I'd like to flesh it out more if that's okay with you.

For the access, this is similiar to TCP wrapper functionality, right?

http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ncat-proxy.html

Heh, cool. I like this :) 

http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ncat-other-options.html

With the telnet option, can you also tell netcat to act as a telnet server, or just \
in client mode only?

I like the source routing.

http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ncat-file-transfer.html
http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ncat-chat.html

Very nice, but I'll probably have more feedback after testing.

http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ncat-tricks.html

I would move the version detection to its own section.

What about a shell shoveling example? That's always fun :)

http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ncat-simple-services.html

Nice, nothing I can think of needs to be chagned.

-Anne
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