[ds6-devel] Re: nc6 0.3.0

[Chris Leishman]

On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 08:39 PM, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:

>
> i would like to release the next version of nc6 ASAP. i would call it
> 0.3.0, as this jump in the versioning system reflects a major 
> improvement
> in the architecture of the software.
>
> as i'd like to release nc6 0.3.0 at most in late january, we should 
> reach
> a "feature freeze" condition __really__ soon. stated this, what 
> features
> would you like to include in the next nc6 release?
>
> from my point of view, we should simply merge your 
> chris_refactor_291202
> branch in the main trunk and perform some testing/bugfixing.

Ok.  Before 0.3 I'd like to add support for the half-close support that 
I originally was going to add (it's a trivial addition now).  We should 
also come to some closure on the double bind thing.

> i would schedule the following features:
>
> - add support for execution of programs
> - add inetd-like continuos listening mode
> - ascii and hexdump logging of connections
> - ssl support
> - simple (maybe even advanced/stealth?) portscanning
> - UDP path mtu discovery support
> - simple telnet support?
> - plugin capability

Perhaps you should explain the plugin support a bit more?
I'm also not convinced that we should bother with portscanning - isn't 
that what nmap is for?

Regards,
Chris