RenaudWe tried to use Nessus 3, comparing it with the output from Nessus 2. For some reason, version 3 was not detecting some of the vulnerabilities I know we had -- plugins 17985, detecting a vulnerability on Communigate Stalker, and 14687, detecting a psyBNC server. We tried to diagnose the problem, but we simply cannot tell if these are the only plugins having issues.
So, we have to troubleshoot either one, the other, or both. Our preference is to use 3, since it is a lot faster than 2 if nothing else. If it also scales better, that's great.
Thanks Alex Renaud Deraison wrote:
On Mar 27, 2006, at 7:11 PM, Kenneth Shelton wrote:We routinely scan our entire class B subnet monthly. As we are a University, we are very compartmentalized and the scans are, therefore, broken up into chunks. We have run into an issue that the nessus client (ran from a seperate machine as the nessus daemon) receives a connection termination from the nessus daemon in the middle of most of the larger scans. Last month I tracked down a specific scan that was giving us a problem and isolated the problem to one class C which, when scanned even by itself would still cause a crash the majority of the time, but it did actually complete the scan once. Now about 5-7 blocks larger blocks are crashing in the middle of the scans and the issue has us pooling our hair out.Here are the arguments being passed to the client: nessus -V -q -T xml Here is the output from the nessus daemon secscan1 logs # nessusd -v nessusd (Nessus) 2.3.1 for LinuxNessus 2.3.x is highly unstable. I recommand upgrading to Nessus 3 which scales better when doing bigger scans.-- Renaud _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
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