We too have had significant issues with Nessus and Novell. "BindView" is that preferred alternative, however it is not a free solution.
Ramius ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Kantner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeff Sorrells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 4:42 PM Subject: Re: Scanning Novell Servers causes abended > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, at 15:25, Jeff Sorrells wrote: > > Hello! > > > Yesterday I used Nessus version 2.5.8 on Linux Fedora Core 5 to scan 23 > > Novell servers running NetWare 6 SP5. Of the 23 servers 11 abended and > > had to be rebooted. I am using NessusWX for an interface to the server > > and used the defaults for the scan, except that I dropped the number of > > host scanned to 10. One of the 11 servers had an app crash and the > > entire server stopped responding. > > > > Is this pretty common for Novell servers, or did I just hit an unlucky > > combination and blow things up? > > We had many troubles with scanning netware-servers, > of course it depends which services are activated but > in general we only do nmap not nessus-scans on our netware-server-"farm" > > > Greetings from Vienna > > > Wolfgang Kantner > > - -- > secure by default > http://openbsd.org > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (OpenBSD) > > iD8DBQFFHDO8gU6QtVOUt00RAtq2AJ44EqamF3tDM6NvMAzV2ata13O6kQCgnpo2 > 1Ap6DGkp612dz5aK9mMgg4A= > =1FM4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > > _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
