How to list down hosts with nmap 5.51

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I was using nmap 5.21 with the -PN, -F and –reason flags in version 5.21. I was outputting the results to an XML file. It would list ALL hosts (say I gave it a /24 subnet to scan. I then updated to 5.51 and ran the exact same command, but it no longer lists down hosts, just ones that are up. Is there a new flag to list down hosts? OR did this get removed in 5.51?

My full options are:

-sS -n -PN -SV -F --reason

I've also used and removed --open but it will not list down hosts in my XML output.

Best Answer

I checked the Nmap changelog found this in changelog for the Nmap 5.30BETA1 release of March 2010:

o XML output now only includes host elements for down hosts in verbose mode. This makes it consistent with the other output formats.

So to get the XML output for down hosts like you had before, you should use verbose mode (-v) in Nmap 5.30 and newer.

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