"Tom D'Aquino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I ran tcpdump during the scan and noticed that when Nessus > scans this particular host, all of the traffic has a source port of 0 and > very few ports are checked.
This comes from ping_host.nasl. The nasl_tcp_ping function looks buggy :-\ Renaud ? > I know for certain that the host is behind a PIX firewall along > with the rest of the hosts on the network. SMTP may be > the only service listening on this host. Can anybody give me some idea of > why Nessus may not be able to see this host? Don't ping the host, or add port 25 in the list of TCP ports.
