Nmap was mostly written during the summer of 1997, which I spent in Baltimore working as a teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins University. They set me up in a dorm room with Ethernet connectivity, giving me a new network to explore. At the time, I had a directory full of port scanners, such as Strobe for connect scanning, Reflscan for SYN scanning, and the UDP scanner from SATAN. I hacked them all to add options and features, but still found them frustrating to use. So I decided to write my own dream port scanner which would be faster, and support all the scan types and options I wanted. Most of us have used nmap but few of us know who created this tool. This article interviews Fyodor the creator of Nmap.

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