Nmap on Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle running Nmap

Since Nmap is already ported to ARM architecture including Android, I’ve managed to successfully compile 5.51 version of Nmap on Amazon Kindle just recently. This port to Amazon Kindle was pretty straightforward. No source patches were needed.

Download

I’ve just compiled newer version(5.61TEST2 to be exact) of Nmap with OpenSSL support. Initial version (5.51) did not had OpenSSL compiled in. It is available at usual location:
http://ftp.linux.hr/kindle/nmap-5.61TEST2-kindle-bin.tar.bz2

How you should install it?

extract nmap-5.61TEST2-kindle-bin.tar.bz2 to opt directory of the root of storage location. That means /mnt/us/opt
cd /mnt/us/opt
tar xvjf nmap-5.61TEST2-kindle-bin.tar.bz2

check that you have following directory structure: /mnt/us/opt/nmap-5.61TEST2
ls /mnt/us/opt/nmap-5.61TEST2

run nmap
/mnt/us/opt/nmap-5.61TEST2/bin/nmap 127.0.0.1

Tips

If you’re not familar, few usual tips. Thanks to various Kindle enthusiasts it is possible to get shell terminal directly on Kindle, so you can run nmap directly from Kindle (you can also run it through ssh – of course!). I’m talking about Kindle 3. Take a look at Amazon Liberation Project and specifically this blog post.

Compilation

Download appropriate scratchbox for kindle

run configure
ac_cv_linux_vers=2 ./configure --host=arm-none-linux --prefix=/mnt/us/opt/nmap-5.61TEST2 --enable-static
--without-zenmap --with-pcap=linux --with-liblua=included --with-libpcap=internal
make
make install


that’s it

Sample session from initial version

[root () kindle root]# uname -a
Linux kindle 2.6.26-rt-lab126 #5 Thu Sep 8 22:30:01 PDT 2011 armv6l unknown
[root () kindle root]# head -5 /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 3 (v6l)
BogoMIPS : 255.59
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 6TEJ
[root () kindle root]# /mnt/us/nmap-5.51/bin/nmap 127.0.0.1

Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-12-11 07:18 CET
Nmap scan report for localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.00013s latency).
Not shown: 999 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.38 seconds

Good luck and let me if it works for you!

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