On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Protima Chhabra wrote:
> I am running nessus 1.2.5 on RH 7.1. All I am doing is a bare bone Nmap
> port scan. This is causing some Solaris machines to become un-responsive.
> These machines have the default Solaris install with pretty much all ports
> open. Locking down the machines does fix the problem, but due to some
> political issues, I cannot do the same for all the machines. Is there any
> anything I can tweak in nessus to take care of the problem?
The problem clearly lies with the unprotected machines.
Nessus is just one way to trigger their suicidal tendencies. I should not
worry about these host as anyone can pickup an install namp for windows
these days and blow these machines to pieces.
Trying to prevent nessus from pointing out he weak spots makes it only
likely someone else will hit the same trouble. Wether they are just as
friendly is anyone's guess.
Hugo.
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