Detect if binding an rlogin socket to a given port failed and retry.#3196
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As pointed out in #2646, the
rlogin-brutescript can randomly fail due to:Regarding the second bullet, the original PR has borrowed a similar code from
rpc.lua, which unfortunately is not working as expected either, due tosocket:connect()not failing even if the invokedmksock_bind_addr()fails. (See #1939. A fix, working around this behavior, is proposed in #3194).This PR borrows the code from #3194 to address both issues.
It will be merged in after November 1 unless concerns are raised.
P.S. It begs the question whether this code should not be abstracted out and placed in one of the NSE libraries, but a cursory review of the existing scripts and libraries indicates that the code would be used only in these two locations.
P.P.S. It would be up to somebody with more intimate knowledge of Nsock to determine whether
socket:connect()should change its behavior and fail upon failingmksock_bind_addr().