On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 03:48:44PM -0700, John Q. Public wrote:
> The caveat is that you might not catch a service running on a non standard
> port, especially if you see "common" ports open. Generic nmap does not
> attempt to identify the services running on the port (though there are patches
> that will attempt to do so).
Actually, it depends on the data you upload to nessusd. Services
recognition will be performed on the data available. Meaning that if an
ssh server is running on port 80 and you upload a file saying port 80 is
open, Nessus will recognize it as an ssh server.
-- Renaud
