On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > nessusd->firewall->internet->firewall->our_network > Would this packet traffic pattern break some of the scan results?
Possibly. All else being equal, there should not be any packet filtering happening between the Nessus server and its gateway to the network. > However, the nessus daemon listens to requests on a port(1241 by default). Is > there a way to configure the server or nessus to only allow nessus authentication > requests on the loopback address, 127.0.0.1? You are in luck. This is a very easy one. Just pass the "-a" flag to nessusd when you start it: /usr/local/sbin/nessusd -D -a 127.0.0.1 ...would cause it to only listen on 127.0.0.1. ~Jay -- .. .. Jay Jacobson .. Edgeos, Inc. - 480.961.5996 - http://www.edgeos.com .. .. Managed Vulnerability Assessment .. Services for Information Security Professionals .. _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
