changelog

NBT scanner utlities

Version 1.5.1 - June 2003

- Fixed segmentation fault when using -f option (noticed by Brian Lovrin)
- Fixed printing ugliness (noticed by Darren Critchley)
- Changed version number :) (1.5 said that it is 1.0.3 - now it proudly says 1.5.1)

Version 1.5 - May 2002

- Fixed a bug in displaying of 15-character NetBIOS names (15th character wasn't displayed). Bug reported by Tom Kustner ([e-mail]), Kenny Breck ([e-mail]) and Richard IJzermans ([e-mail])
- Fixed a bug in interpreting netmask /32 and /0. Patch provided by Thomas Poindessous ([e-mail]) for Debian Linux
- List of hosts to scan can now be read from stdin as well as from file. Suggested by Kevin Kadow ([e-mail])
- Fixed a bug in timing. (nbtscan waited for two seconds after scanning not doing anything). Reported by Ceri Hopkins ([e-mail])
- Nbtscan now works on Darwin. Patches provided by Mohammad A. Haque ([e-mail])
- timeout option -t is now in milliseconds, not seconds
- Fixed some Solaris portability problems. Patches provided by Petter Reinholdtsen ([e-mail])

Version 1.0.3 - February 2002

- NBTscan now returns meaningful exit code (patch by James Troup for Debian Linux)
- Added /etc/hosts and lmhosts format output (suggested by Anahuac de Paula Gil and Sigmund Baginov)
- configure script now honours --prefix argument (patch by Petter Reinholdtsen)
- Error messages now include IP address that caused error
- NBTscan accepts a file with a list of IP addresses to scan (suggested by Omas Jakobsson)
- Service number is printed for unknown NetBIOS services in -h mode (suggested by Dan Wright) 
- Fixed some compile-time warnings on Linux
- Corrected some typos

Version 1.0.2 - March 30, 2000

- Added retransmits (-m option) (Several people asked)
- Added output bandwidth throttling (-b option) (Suggested
  by Jason Garman <[e-mail]>)
- Rewrote sending queries and receiving answers part for more
  reliable scanning of large blocks of addresses. (Suggested
  by Jason Garman <[e-mail]>)
- Added script-friendly output option (-s) (Suggested by
  Patrick Heim <[e-mail]>)
- Added printing of human-readable NetBIOS service names (-h)
  (Suggested by Patrick Heim <[e-mail]>)
- Added -q command line option that suppresses printing
  banners and error messages. (Suggested by Sam Bayne 
  <[e-mail]>)
- Rewrote parse_response completely. This allows for better
  parsing of Samba servers' responses. (Bug reported by 
  Sam Bayne <[e-mail]>)
- Added -d command line option which makes whole packets
  get printed
- Various cosmetic improvements including fixing some
  spelling errors

Version 1.0.1 - May 5, 1999

- Fixed incorrect parsing of MAC address in parse_response() 
  which made last byte of MAC addresses appear as 00. Bug 
  pointed by Joseph Moon.  
- Changed message saying "Warning: -r option not supported 
  under NT." to more accurate saying: "Warning: -r option not 
  supported under Windows."
- Corrected a typo in README.