Nmap Error Messages
Network discovery and auditing of your own hosts.All Nmap pages
- nmap: Failed to resolve "example.local".nmap could not resolve a target name with the system resolver and skipped it. Check the spelling, drop :port suffixes, use -6 for IPv6-only names or use the IP.
- nmap: Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -PnNmap says Host seems down when no discovery probe gets an answer, often because a firewall drops ping. Scan anyway with -Pn, or run as root for better probes.
- nmap: You requested a scan type which requires root privileges. QUITTING!nmap quits with requires root privileges when a SYN, UDP or OS scan needs raw sockets. Run it with sudo, use a TCP connect scan (-sT), or grant capabilities.
- WARNING: No targets were specified, so 0 hosts scanned.nmap ended with no host to scan: no target given, every name failed to resolve, or exclusions removed all. Put a valid target at the end of the command.