On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:08:38PM +0000, John Baker wrote: > Can anyone help with my post a couple days ago then? > > Ie what causes this: > > [Thu Feb 20 21:58:02 2003][27841] user na starts a new attack. Target(s) : > www.j > ackie-oliver.co.uk, with max_hosts = 30 > [Thu Feb 20 21:58:04 2003][27841] user na : testing 255.255.255.255 [27842] > > It turns my host into 255.255.255.255! > > Yet nessus works fine for other hosts. > > Any clues whatsoever?
Apparently you inserted a return-carriage in the target, and Nessus could not resolve the name (it's a bug though, it should yell at you).
