Hi everyone.

I am in the final developing stages of my Matric I.T project, and I'd like some input on it.

NETFind is a project I started near the beginning of the year. It is a networking tool that will ping a user defined IP range or scan a Windows domain to discover 'active' IPs using Host Name and Host Address resolution. This scan data is then added to an array and may be viewed in table format, and can also be saved to a text file.

I figured the tool may be handy to an ethical hacker if access to a network is available to continue their security report.

Java is the language I used for this program(I may re-develop it at the end of the year in C#).

Just a few more days till its' completion   Please PM me with your email if you are interested, I would really appreciate any comments...

Jarod K

Sounds interesting!

Best to provide it to some people in a Beta-version and let them test the technical and functional merits of the tool!!

Do make the Beta-version available. I'm sure you'll receive lots of helpful inputs.

I'm not a Java programmer but it looks like that Java doesn't provide support which a discovery tool like yours will need.http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4727550 Reprogramming it in C# might be a better option. But I'm not sure so I hope someone corrects me.

Any tool, build specifically for network sweeping should at least have the feature listed here http://nmap.org/book/man-host-discovery.html

No no. Didn't mean to demotivate him. I just wanted to give an idea of features which any descent ping sweep utility should encompass. Personally, I believe that there's space for more than one tool for a certain task. Think of it, Nmap is the king for version scanning too, but people still like to use Amap, isn't it?

Hi again everyone

The BETA for NETFind version 3 is officially done 

Please PM or email me if you would like to try it out... Please do, I could really use the input.

The current zipped .jar executable is 57Kb, so remember to buy some new cap

My project is to be handed in on Friday the 30th, so please, any input will be immensly appreciated!

Don't worry, I'm not demotivated at all. Reading the Nmap site had broadened my view to network sweeping, and in this have found inspiration to research these techniques further. Thank you so much for your input What do you mean by 'Amap' though?

Thank you Anquilas, I realise that Java is'nt some what of a low-level language to be doing this sort of thing... Later tin the year once I've written my final exams, I will definately attempt to try this in C# becuase from the link Equix3n posted, it seems Java has no functionality with technical socket programming. Java is the chosen language of my high school I.T class, as my school did not choose Delphi, and this project requires the program to be created in Java unfortunately...

You could upload your program to a one-click hoster such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, and the like. This might get you more feedback.

http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-amap/

Ah yes, when I first started I came across the jpcap library, lol the documentation is horrible...

Thanx awesec, I intended to ask some of the EHN users to try it out first, I intend to become one myself after varsity, then collage. I might one day though, once I've received enough info to put it out there.

Thanx so much Anquilas, it seems very intresting I will be writing exams soon, and maybe I'll fiddle with that a bit.