[ds6-devel] Re: nc6 0.3.0

[Mauro Tortonesi]

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Chris Leishman wrote:

> 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).

good.

> We should also come to some closure on the double bind thing.

yes, that's the most important point now.

> > 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'd like to add support for plugins to nc6. in this way, we could easily
develop plugins to add support for upper layer protocols (such as telnel)
to nc6. what do you think about this? IMHO this would be very cool...

> I'm also not convinced that we should bother with portscanning - isn't
> that what nmap is for?

yes. but the original nc had an option for simple portscanning (-z).
should we support this too?

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