353  masscan - configuration reference

354 masscan — configuration reference

Configuration surfaces for masscan (safety class: safe; category: c-01-information-gathering) — detected from the upstream documentation at generation time (8 config-surface markers). The invocation reference stays on the main tool page.

354.1 Configuration files

Path	Context
xxx.conf	100 10.0.0.0/8 2603:3001:2d00:da00::/112 –echo > xxx.conf # masscan -c xxx.conf –rate 1000 ## Banner checking Mass
/etc/pf.conf	e the pf packet-filter utility. Edit the file /etc/pf.conf to add a line like the following: block in proto tc
myscan.conf	configuration file, use the -c: # masscan -c myscan.conf This also makes things easier when you repeat a scan. By
/etc/masscan/masscan.conf	ult, masscan first loads the configuration file /etc/masscan/masscan.conf. Any later configuration parameters overrid

354.2 Environment variables

None surfaced in the upstream README at generation time.

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ref: pin - verified 2026-10-14