Vivek, I think in my previous mail, I mentioned to ignore that ping_host.nasl related message. There's an issue in one of the plugin which is reporting that message falsely and ping_host.nasl is not there in the plugins repository.
If you are able to get the report, scan is fine. Thanks, Chandra. -----Original Message----- From: Vivek Umasuthan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:54 PM To: Chandrashekhar B Cc: [email protected] Subject: FW: [Openvas-discuss] Scan duration : unknown (ping_host.nasl notlaunched?) 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 _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
