On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:56:54AM -0000, Hemsley, Trevor wrote:
> I'm seeing a large number of false negative detections by snmp_detect.nasl.
> I'm scanning for 3 things, 
> 
> snmp_detect.nasl
> snmp_default_communities.nasl
> snmp_sysDescr.nasl
> 
> What I see is that snmp_detect gets run, opens port 161 ok, does the send
> then the recv but gets null back in return. On 1.0.9 the other two tests
> then run anyway and find that the agent is using the default community
> strings and show the correct o/s version thus showing that the snmp_detect
> did not work properly. On 1.0.10, the other two tests now check snmp/running
> which is set by the first test and don't run at all thus we lose sight of
> this box altogether.

There was a bug - run "nessus-update-plugins" and try again, it's
fixed now.

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