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`ponymap' is an experimental network scanner, not even in the alpha stage yet.
+Replacing nmap is not the goal, even though it would be rather very nice to
+have a non-copyleft licensed network scanner.
+
The ultimate purpose of this scanner is bruteforcing hosts and ports in search
-of running services. Replacing nmap is not the goal.
+of running services of a kind. It should be very simple and straight-forward
+to write your own service detection plugins.
Building and Running
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-Build dependencies: openssl, clang, pkg-config, GNU make, awk, sh
+Build dependencies: openssl, clang, pkg-config, GNU make, Jansson
If you don't have Clang, you can edit the Makefile to use GCC or TCC, they work
just as good. But there's no CMake support yet, so I force it in the Makefile.