I have just upgraded my server to the latest version last night, which I see has separate settings for the Nmap wrapper. I am doing a little trial and error with timings and so forth and everything seems to be going well.
Cheers & Beers to you George! Thanks very much for your help. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of George Theall Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 2:37 AM To: Nessus Subject: Re: Timeouts On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:38:01AM -0000, Brennon Williams wrote: > In the nessusd.conf file, there are 2 settings for timeouts, 1 being > for plugin timeouts set to 320 seconds by default the other being a > checks_read_timeout set to 5 by default. > > > Does any of these 2 settings change the timeout of the port scanner, > so it doesn't hang for so long against targets that are not > responding? You don't say which port scanner you're using. The nmap port scanner has options to control how long it spends on a given host -- look at "Timing policy", "Host timeout", and the like. In addition, plugins_timeout should limit the time taken by *any* plugin. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
