On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 12:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The default configuration for nessus fails against > networks with firewalls that do not admit inbound > pings. We learned this last night. > > Is there a way around this? > Many of the nessus scripts are going to give you false negatives in this situation anyway, since the firewall is going to block responses that should get back to you. If you want to scan hosts outside the firewall, you need to run the nessus server outside the firewall, otherwise the firewall will change the results.
-- Jason Kohles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Engineer Red Hat Professional Consulting - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
