nmap -sP was not what Sanjeev was suggesting, if I read his post right. He added at the end to "not ping them" so my interpretation of that would be to use nmap -s[STU] (only one :-) and possibly if you feel safe even up the timing (nmap -sS -T4 for example). Many hosts block icmp and nmap deals better if you do a syn|tcp|udp scan. However, if there is a common thread in what you are looking for (ie just a couple ports) doscan is extremely fast and may work better for it (it even outputs into a usable target list format).
Karl On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 22:30 +0200, Michel Arboi wrote: > On Fri May 12 2006 at 22:23, sanjeev sinha wrote: > > > Seems like a lot of hosts. Why don't you do a nmap scan to see > > which hosts are up and then do a scan using nessus. > > Definitely a bad idea. > nmap -sP is much less efficient than ping_host.nasl > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
