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Nmap uses raw ip packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are. Significant effort has been put into comprehensive and uptodate man pages, whitepapers, tutorials, and even a whole book. Stack overflow for teams is a private, secure spot for you and your coworkers to find and share information. If you are looking for the book on nmap, the search is over. Nmaps original author, gordon fyodor lyon, wrote this book to share everything he. Contribute to simrannmap csharp development by creating an account on github. Nmap uses raw ip packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services application name and version those hosts are offering, what operating systems and os versions. The directory will also be different if you chose to install nmap in a nondefault location. This section describes how to write your own compiled extensions to nselib.