Check your ipchains, you probably selected some sort of firewalling during the install of 7.2 that is blocking connections from being made.
ipchains -L will show you the chains in effect. to disable them until the next reboot, run /etc/init.d/ipchains stop and see if you can connect. Be sure to start them if you're still paranoid, but man ipchains for information on how to insert a rule allowing nessus to run. .nhoJ On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Jeff Baldwin wrote: |Hello All (first time 'poster' here) -- | |I have loaded Nessus many times in the past w/ absolutely no problems. |However, I just installed Nessus on my RedHat 7.2 (i386) boxen and I |have immediately ran into a problem. I cannot get a client to connect |to my 'host' to save my life. I keep getting errors like 'unable to |connect to remote host' (I am using the Windows clients). | |I have started the nessus daemon | |<snip> | |[baldwinj@mill95 baldwinj]$ ps -aux | grep nessusd |root 4391 0.4 2.8 4956 3660 pts/0 S 20:38 0:07 nessusd |baldwinj 4553 0.0 0.6 1876 784 pts/3 S 20:58 0:00 man nessusd | |</snip> | |I read in the FAQ that the output from 'netstat -na' could be helpful w/ |this issue, so I have included it at the very bottom of this posting. | |Thanks in advance for all the help | |Jeff | |(I've cut off a good portion of the bottom half of netstat -na, let me |know if more info is necessary) | | |Active Internet connections (servers and established) |Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address |State |tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:1024 0.0.0.0:* |LISTEN |tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:515 0.0.0.0:* |LISTEN |tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:901 0.0.0.0:* |LISTEN |tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* |LISTEN |tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* |LISTEN |tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* |LISTEN |tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1048 0.0.0.0:* |LISTEN |tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1241 0.0.0.0:* |LISTEN |tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3001 0.0.0.0:* |LISTEN |tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* |LISTEN |tcp 0 0 152.2.72.95:1927 152.2.1.123:143 |ESTABLISHED |tcp 0 0 152.2.72.95:1929 152.2.1.123:143 |ESTABLISHED |tcp 0 0 152.2.72.95:1931 152.2.1.123:143 |ESTABLISHED |udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1025 0.0.0.0:* | |udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:711 0.0.0.0:* | |udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* | |udp 0 0 152.2.72.95:123 0.0.0.0:* | |udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:123 0.0.0.0:* | |udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:123 0.0.0.0:* |
