On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:03:23PM -0600, Stuart Powell wrote:

> I am having trouble getting remote clients to connect to our server.  I
> can launch the client locally on the server, and it works just fine. 
> However, remote clients, Windows and Linux alike, are refused.  

Is it possible the Nessus daemon is listening only on localhost? The
commandline option "-a" (or equivalently "--listen") controls this 
when starting the daemon.

> I wonder if the problem is that we are behind the firewall, and the
> Nessus server is on the outside of it.  If the firewall is blocking a
> return connection, which port do we need to open ?

By default, Nessus uses tcp 1241 for communications so you'd certainly
have problems if the firewall blocks that outbound. 


George
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