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masscan is a port scanning tool that supports high speed scanning. The tool can scan the whole internet in several minutes.
1. How to use
masscan has similar options to nmap. If you’ve used and are familiar with nmap, you can easily use masscan, too.
Specify target’s IP address and port range.
# # masscan <target-ip> --port <port-range>
# masscan 8.8.8.8 --port 0-65535Keep in mind, to use masscan, you should run it in root user. Also, masscan cannot handle domain name. You should know an IP address of the target.