On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Renaud Deraison wrote: > Well, you don't want to scan a host and THEN to realize that it's down.
Well, sometimes a full scan is the only way to determine whether a certain host is up or (probably) down. :) (Imagine a heavily firewalled server where a single UDP service is accesible and everything else is blackholed.) > If you don't want to ping the host, then simply disable the ping options > in the "Prefs." tab of the client (disable ICMP and TCP) I know. The question is why Nessus tries to outsmart me when I disable it in "Scan options" where it is enabled by default (moreover, runtime deps appear to be disabled by default, ergo the dependency won't help anyone unless runtime deps are enabled explicitly). --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation." _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
