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.

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Jason Kohles                                 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Engineer                 Red Hat Professional Consulting

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