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Wrongly host count #40

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dvppvd opened this issue Dec 6, 2022 · 1 comment
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Wrongly host count #40

dvppvd opened this issue Dec 6, 2022 · 1 comment
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dvppvd commented Dec 6, 2022

Expected behavior

Boreas count number of hosts properly.

Actual behavior

Boreas count number of hosts wrongly when scan a target using domain name resolved to more than 1 IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6).

Steps to reproduce

  1. Scan a target using domain name resolved to more than 1 IP addresses.
  2. Notice the host count is wrong.

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boreas: build from the latest main source.

Logfiles

$sudo boreas --target=google.com
Alive scan started: Target has 2 hosts.
216.58.214.14
Alive scan finished in 6 seconds: 1 alive hosts of 2.

$host google.com
google.com has address 142.250.179.206
google.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1450:400e:80e::200e
google.com mail is handled by 10 smtp.google.com.
@dvppvd dvppvd added the bug Something isn't working label Dec 6, 2022
@ArnoStiefvater
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Hello @dvppvd,
Thanks for opening this issue.
Unfortunately the description of host is a bit misleading. We currently resolve the target to both IP addresses and alive test them.
We will discuss this in more depth soon.
Regards

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