Hi Chandra,
Please ignore the previous message. I figured out how to get nmap to show up.
This time I selected nmap, disabled OpenVAS TCP Scanner and enabled SYN scan
(all under general settings). However, I still see the message "Scan duration :
unknown (ping_host.nasl not launched?)". I think the scan itself is fine since
tcpdump shows a lot of TCP traffic with the SYN bit set. I haven't found a way
to completely disable all other plugins and just do a SYN scan so I can be sure
that the SYN scan is done properly.
I have copied a section of the report below in case it would be helpful.
-------------------------- OPENVAS REPORT ----------------------------------
Reported by NVT "Information about the scan" (1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.19506):
Information about this scan :
OpenVAS version : 2.0.1
Plugin feed version : 200906180810
Type of plugin feed : OpenVAS NVT Feed
Scanner IP : 192.168.1.254
Port scanner(s) : nmap synscan
Port range : default
Thorough tests : no
Experimental tests : no
Paranoia level : 1
Report Verbosity : 1
Safe checks : no
Max hosts : 20
Max checks : 4
Scan duration : unknown (ping_host.nasl not launched?)
-------------------------- OPENVAS REPORT ----------------------------------
Thanks
Vivek
-----Original Message-----
From: Vivek Umasuthan
Sent: June-18-09 10:11 AM
To: 'Chandrashekhar B'
Subject: RE: [Openvas-discuss] Scan duration : unknown (ping_host.nasl
notlaunched?)
Hi Chandra,
I selected TCP SYN scan in the general settings. I haven't tried using nmap for
the same though. I will do that today and see what happens. Where do I select
nmap? I don't seem to be able to find any settings related to that anywhere on
the client.
My report has the scan information here:
192.168.1.1
|_______ general/tcp
|_________ Security Note
I can also send you a copy of the whole report if you prefer.
Thanks for the help.
Vivek
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chandrashekhar B [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: June-18-09 12:53 AM
> To: Vivek Umasuthan; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Openvas-discuss] Scan duration : unknown (ping_host.nasl
> notlaunched?)
>
> Hello Vivek,
>
> Please ignore that message, ping_host.nasl is not there in the Plugins
> repository, we'll remove the specific log message,
>
> "Scan duration : unknown (ping_host.nasl not launched?)"
>
> Are you selecting synscan port scanner? I never got any report from this
> specific scanner, you could select nmap scanner and in the Preferences,
> enable SYN scan.
>
> Thanks,
> Chandra.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vivek
> Umasuthan
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:00 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Openvas-discuss] Scan duration : unknown (ping_host.nasl
> notlaunched?)
>
> Hi,
> I am a new here, so pardon me if I am asking about something that has
> already been resolved. I have installed and am running OpenVAS on Debian
> Lenny. I ran a scan against a router. I wanted to specifically do a TCP
> SYN
> scan. Once the scan was complete and I looked at the report, there is this
> message under the "information about the scan" section which says "Scan
> duration : unknown (ping_host.nasl not launched?)". I looked into [My
> OpenVAS Directory]/lib/openvas/plugins/ and couldn't find any NASL called
> 'ping_host.nasl'. Is this a problem? Can I get this file somewhere? Did
> TCP
> SYN scan actually happen?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Vivek Umasuthan
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