Re: nessus report

2008-12-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 19, 2008 11:32:51 PM -0600 Richard Yang kusanagiy...@gmail.com wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx There are several ways to detect if a

nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Yang
hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread michael
Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich uh, maybe because it responded? ___

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Yang
yes,but i dpn't know how... it looks to me that all ports are closed On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:38 PM, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:32:51PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich I can't tell about nessus but nmap does so after

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:41:46PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: yes,but i dpn't know how... it looks to me that all ports are closed On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:38 PM, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Yang
i just used tcpdump.it doesn't capture anything package On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:41:46PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: yes,but i dpn't know how... it looks to me that all ports are closed On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:38

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Yang
i havent tried nmap yet, but you said it also detected the remote, though no port is open? On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:32:51PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:57:09PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: i havent tried nmap yet, but you said it also detected the remote, though no port is open? ICMP doesn't require any open ports. -- Jonathan Chen j...@chen.org.nz --

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Yang
i ran a tcpdump.bsd box is responding to arp. i guess this is fundamental, and should not be disabled thanx guys rich On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Richard Yang kusanagiy...@gmail.comwrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't