ok, thanks. you are right. I disable the ping and now i can scan the hsot...at the moment i don't have results...
regards, Francesco On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Renaud Deraison (lists) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > -- Francesco S.
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