On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 05:54:11PM +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> > the Nessus Client currently uses "localhost"
> > as the default target.
> > Since this may not necessarily the host where Nessus
> > Server runs, I think this should better be changed to
> > "127.0.0.1"...
>
> If localhost does not resolve to 127.0.0.1 you should fix the host! Not
> try to work around a broken installation.
of course. But it would be bad if a nessus scan is
the way you learn about a broken installation.
I though it less of a "workaround" for broken installations
but just of the savest way to be sure the host where
Nessus Server runs is the one scanned by default.
Best
Jan
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Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/
Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/
FreeGIS http://freegis.org/
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