On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:57 PM, francesco sottini wrote:
> Dears,
>
> I am doing an university project and the final goal is to scan 4
> hosts and report all the problems that we meet.
> Well, the 4 hosts are on a private network. to scan them, we have to
> connect with the nessus client to a nessus server and then scan the
> target.
> The problem is that for an host, i obtain always the result:" The
> remote host is considered as dead - not scanning".
>
> I suppose that on that host, declared fromt he professor "an hard
> challenge", there is a kind of IDS or honeypot..
>
> what can i do?
You can force Nessus to disable pinging the remote host prior to
scanning. Edit your policy -> advanced -> "Ping the remote host" and
uncheck all the boxes (ICMP ping, TCP ping and ARP ping).
-- Renaud
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