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.
