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Do not read from STDIN option #142

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techwolf359 opened this issue May 29, 2015 · 5 comments
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Do not read from STDIN option #142

techwolf359 opened this issue May 29, 2015 · 5 comments
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@techwolf359
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Upgraded from CentOS 6 to 7 and nc was replaced with ncat. nc has an option, -d, which won't try to read from STDIN. -d in ncat, is a delay flag. Changing option flags would be perfectly okay if there was a corresponding option. The main problem is that when I run a bash script non-interactively that has ncat listen, it immediately exits "NCAT DEBUG: EOF on stdin". I've been unsuccessful in a workaround short of building the older nc for CentOS 7.
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For what it's worth, I did get a workaround using script. Example:

script -c "nc -l $port | tar xvf -"

I still think to keep compatibility, ncat should have a flag to accomplish this.

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Does --recv-only do what you want in this case?

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Negative, same results.

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Please include the output of nc --version so we can determine if this is an already-solved issue.

Additionally, the output (stderr) from your command with the addition of -vvv will provide useful debugging information.

Finally, can you clarify what you mean by "non-interactively"? Do you have the same problem with nc -l $port </dev/null | tar xvf - ? Or do you mean closing stdin with <&-? I just filed a bug for a separate issue in that case: #143.

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Receiving side: Ncat: Version 6.40 ( http://nmap.org/ncat )
Sending side: nc-1.84-22.el6.x86_64

Reproduced with: nc -vvv -l $port </dev/null | tar xvf -

Ncat: Version 6.40 ( http://nmap.org/ncat )
NCAT DEBUG: Initialized fdlist with 103 maxfds
Ncat: Listening on :::9999
NCAT DEBUG: Added fd 3 to list, nfds 1, maxfd 3
Ncat: Listening on 0.0.0.0:9999
NCAT DEBUG: Added fd 4 to list, nfds 2, maxfd 4
NCAT DEBUG: Added fd 0 to list, nfds 3, maxfd 4
NCAT DEBUG: Initialized fdlist with 100 maxfds
NCAT DEBUG: selecting, fdmax 4
NCAT DEBUG: select returned 1 fds ready
NCAT DEBUG: fd 4 is ready
Ncat: Connection from $IP.
NCAT DEBUG: Swapping fd[0] (3) with fd[2] (0)
NCAT DEBUG: Removed fd 3 from list, nfds 2, maxfd 4
NCAT DEBUG: Swapping fd[1] (4) with fd[1] (4)
NCAT DEBUG: Removed fd 4 from list, nfds 1, maxfd 0
Ncat: Connection from $IP:32840.
NCAT DEBUG: Added fd 5 to list, nfds 2, maxfd 5
NCAT DEBUG: Added fd 5 to list, nfds 1, maxfd 5
NCAT DEBUG: selecting, fdmax 5
NCAT DEBUG: select returned 1 fds ready
NCAT DEBUG: fd 0 is ready
NCAT DEBUG: EOF on stdin
NCAT DEBUG: selecting, fdmax 5
NCAT DEBUG: select returned 1 fds ready
NCAT DEBUG: fd 5 is ready
NCAT DEBUG: Closing connection.
NCAT DEBUG: Swapping fd[1] (5) with fd[1] (5)
NCAT DEBUG: Removed fd 5 from list, nfds 1, maxfd 0
NCAT DEBUG: Swapping fd[0] (5) with fd[0] (5)
NCAT DEBUG: Removed fd 5 from list, nfds 0, maxfd -1
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

adsr added a commit to adsr/nmap that referenced this issue Jun 4, 2015
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Add --no-shutdown option.
0a34908 
This option solves issue nmap#142. It prevents Ncat from putting the connection in
half-duplex mode after seeing EOF on stdin. This emulates the behavior of
OpenBSD-netcat's `-d` option. The `-d` option itself prevents a bug affecting
some versions of that program in which the sender closes the connection
prematurely upon receiving a FIN packet from a receiver.
@adsr adsr mentioned this issue Jun 4, 2015
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qha pushed a commit to qha/nmap that referenced this issue Dec 16, 2015
@bonsaiviking @qha
Add new --no-shutdown option to Ncat. Closes nmap#151, fixes nmap#142
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