On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:19:15AM +0000, John Baker wrote:
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> Hello.
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> I have an interesting issue with Nessus running on a Sun box. It's behind a
> firewall on the same network as another Nessus server installed on Linux
> which appears to work ok. Both boxes have the same iptables firewalling
> rules. The Sun box seems to give up trying to scan something very quickly,
> although to be fair the host in the log extract below cannot be pinged. I can
> still do this:
[...]
> So surely nmap should have picked something up?
Try to edit your .nessurc and set the line :
Nmap[checkbox]:Ping the remote host = yes
to :
Nmap[checkbox]:Ping the remote host = no
(to disable Nmap's ping, while keeping Nessus's ping). It should work.
