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@wooluo wooluo commented Jul 11, 2025

Fix DNS Resolution and Improve Progress Bar Functionality

Summary

This PR addresses critical DNS resolution issues and enhances the progress bar functionality in RustScan, making it more stable and user-friendly.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed tokio runtime conflicts that caused crashes during DNS resolution
  • Improved address parsing to avoid unnecessary DNS lookups
  • Enhanced progress bar visibility and reliability

🚀 Features & Enhancements

  • Multi-platform build support with GitHub Actions
  • Cross-compilation for Windows, macOS (Intel/ARM), and Linux (x64/ARM64)
  • Automated testing with CI/CD pipeline
  • Performance optimizations for CIDR parsing

📊 Impact

  • More stable DNS resolution without runtime conflicts
  • Visible progress bar with ETA and speed indicators
  • Optimized address parsing with lazy DNS resolution
  • Automated builds for all platforms

🔧 Technical Details

  • Fixed hickory-resolver tokio runtime conflicts
  • Improved progress bar initialization and update logic
  • Enhanced error handling for network operations
  • Added comprehensive GitHub Actions workflows

📝 Changes

  • src/address.rs - Fixed DNS resolution logic
  • src/scanner/mod.rs - Enhanced progress bar implementation
  • Added GitHub Actions for CI/CD and multi-platform builds
  • Updated dependencies and improved error handling

This is a backward-compatible improvement that addresses common user complaints about runtime crashes and missing progress indicators.

wooluo and others added 4 commits July 11, 2025 21:47
- Fix tokio runtime conflicts in DNS resolver initialization
- Improve address parsing to avoid unnecessary DNS resolution
- Enhance progress bar reliability and visibility
- Update dependencies (clap 4.5.41, tokio, etc.)
- Add better error handling for network operations
- Optimize CIDR network parsing performance

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- Add CI workflow for automated testing and build verification
- Add release workflow for cross-platform binary compilation
- Support Windows, macOS (Intel/ARM), and Linux (x64/ARM64)
- Automatic package creation with installation scripts
- Checksums and GitHub Releases integration

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- macOS Apple Silicon (ARM64)
- Linux x64 (GNU)
- Linux ARM64 (GNU)

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- Remove needless else clause in build.rs hex parsing logic
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- Replace trim().split('\n') with lines() in build.rs
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- Fix needless_pass_by_value and implicit_clone warnings
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@wooluo, thanks for the PR. However, there's far too much contained in this single PR to be merged as-is.

Looking firstly at the things you mention in the PR title, "Fix DNS Resolution" and "Improve Progress Bar Functionality":

  • your title states that this relates to "Fix DNS Resolution…" but there's only a single mention of that in your code changes—if there's an issue in the DNS resolution, that should be dealt with directly (I don't believe this is an issue that's been raised) with tests added to validate both the issue and the fix.
    • equally, the "…Improve Progress Bar Functionality" component of the title should be raised separately: you say "improve" and "enhance" whereas this is adding entirely new functionality, which I'm not sure there's any particular desire for.

Regarding changes unrelated to the PR's title:

  • you say that it "addresses common user complaints about runtime crashes and missing progress indicators"—if there are issues relating to these complaints, the fixes should be raised separately and directly reference the GitHub issue in question; I'm not currently aware of these common complaints.
  • you've swapped out the async-std runtime for tokio; there's already a PR for this, The full tokio port, Sadly there is no change in performance detected. #723, so while we're not against that, again: that's a significant change that should be dealt with in isolation to properly assess the impact.
  • all the changes to GitHub Actions are somewhat arbitrary—currently there's no desire to build and distribute platform-specific binaries (this was intentionally removed relatively recently); also, you've added an entirely separate workflow without regard for the existing ones—if there are specific concerns with the existing workflows, they should be raised as changes.

Again, thanks for raising the PR but each issue you've addressed is better dealt with in isolation.

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