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NAME

       pnscan - multi threaded port scanning tool

SYNOPSIS

       pnscan [ options ] [ <CIDR | host-range> <port-range> ]

       pnscan [ options ] [ <port> ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the pnscan command.

       pnscan is a tool that can be used to survey TCP network services.

       When  used  with  two command line arguments it will scan the indicated
       network/hosts and ports. When used without arguments or just  one  then
       it  will  read  hostname/IP  addresses  from stdin and probe those. The
       single port/service argument is  used  as  a  default  if  no  port  is
       indicated on stdin

       For  example,  it  can be used to survey the installed versions of SSH,
       FTP, SMTP, Web, IDENT and possibly other services.

       This  program  implements  a  multithreaded  TCP  port  scanner.   More
       information     and     new     relaseses     may    be    found    at:
       http://www.lysator.liu.se/~pen/pnscan

OPTIONS

       -h     Show summary of options.

       -v     Be verbose.

       -V     Print version.

       -d     Print debugginf info.

       -s     Lookup and print hostnames.

       -S     Enable shutdown mode.

       -l     Line oriented output.

       -w<string>
              Request string to send.

       -r<string>
              Response string to look for.

       -W<hex list>
              Hex coded request string to send.

       -R<hex list>
              Hex coded response string to look for.

       -L<length>
              Max bytes of response to print.

       -t<msecs>
              Connect/Write/Read timeout.

       -n<workers>
              Concurrent worker threads.

SEE ALSO

       nmap (1) and ipsort (1).

AUTHOR

       pnscan was originally written by Ola Lundqvist opal@debian.org and then
       later  modified  and  then  later  modified and updated by the upstream
       maintainer Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>.

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify  this  document
       under  the  terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
       any later version published by the Free Software  Foundation;  with  no
       Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

                               21 December 2007