Robert Diamond - 2002-03-15

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A litle more research has found that this problem arises
when the packets are droped by the host. In a normal case
the request goes out, and a responce is recieved. The
responce either opens the port, or says that the port is not
avalible for communication. However when a packet is droped
by the host, no responce is sent. TCL times out after 60
seconds and then retries sending the packet. After the 4th
retry it admits defeat and returns to he next line of code.
This 'wait' is were the problem lies. I havn't found a way
to change the default time-out or retries, so I'm thinkning
of programing the port scanner in perl and useing TCL as a
GUII interface for the command-line perl port scanner.