On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Renaud Deraison wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:28:52PM -0400, Kristofer T. Karas wrote:
> >   port = scanner_get_port(i)
> > is not getting itself into an infinite loop somehow.  This lockup only
> > appears periodically, so perhaps it does depend upon which ports were or
> > were not found open/closed when rescanned???
> 
> Which port range did you enter in the GUI ?

Gotcha. I myself wondered several times why check_ports.nasl (and its
buddy port_shell_execution.nasl) spends so much time burning CPU cycles
without any network activity (*). Sometimes, not always -- and it might
correspond to the cases when I ran Nessus with a large set of scanned
ports (maybe even 1-65535).

(*) Apparently, my understanding of scanner_get_port() was wrong because
I supposed it returns open ports only.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak
"Welcome to the Czech Republic. Bring your own lifeboats."

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