Hello List, It seems that if I have the "Ping the remote host" active in the port scanning configuration, Nessus reports that many (>50%) of my hosts are "dead." However, if I shut off auto-enable dependencies, I can run nmap, SYN, etc. scans without problems. I see that most of the scans requre ping_host.nasl, so I'm not sure what the effect of disabling pings would be. I'm assuming Nessus would launch attacks against non-existing hosts without ping capability. I certainly don't want that!
Is there anything I can do to fix this issue? I've tried different settings for pings including ICMP pings only and it makes no difference. If host pinging is enabled, I get many "dead hosts." I'm running Nessus 2.0.7 on SuSE 9.0. Most of the hosts I'm testing are Win2K. I've included a log snippet below. Thanks, Craig ------------------------- [Thu Mar 18 17:46:42 2004][2727] connection from 127.0.0.1 [Thu Mar 18 17:46:42 2004][2765] Client requested protocol version 12. [Thu Mar 18 17:46:42 2004][2765] successful login of xxxx from 127.0.0.1 [Thu Mar 18 17:46:54 2004][2765] Redirecting debugging output to /var/lib/nessu [Thu Mar 18 17:47:26 2004][2765] user xxxx starts a new attack. Target(s) : [Thu Mar 18 17:47:26 2004][2765] user xxxx : testing 10.3.0.119 (10.3.0.119 [Thu Mar 18 17:47:26 2004][2766] user xxxx : launching ping_host.nasl again [Thu Mar 18 17:47:32 2004][2766] ping_host.nasl (process 2767) finished its job [Thu Mar 18 17:47:32 2004][2766] user xxxx : launching nmap_tcp_connect.nes [Thu Mar 18 17:47:32 2004][2766] user xxxx : The remote host (10.3.0.119) is dea [Thu Mar 18 17:47:32 2004][2766] Finished testing 10.3.0.119. Time : 6.10 secs [Thu Mar 18 17:47:32 2004][2765] user xxxx : test complete _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
