Bad news then. I will try to take a loot at the sources, hope i can
remember some C or whatever it is written in. Thanks!!!

2012/5/29 Thomas Reinke <[email protected]>

> This is a long standing issue, I know this was discussed several years
> back in one of the DEVCONs (3 years ago I believe).  I thought at one
> point there was a CR written on this, but I can't seem to find it?
>
> Perhaps someone else that was involved at the time can refresh our
> collective memories?
>
> I know that the work involved to make this happen was non-trivial, and
> there was a certain level of discussion on how to handle common
> scenarios where there are many (sometimes 2,3, sometimes hundreds if
> not more) virtual hosts on a single IP.  The issue there was that scans
> are IP based, so support for virtual hosts needed to decide how to
> handle the many (vhost) to one (IP) mapping, and what kinds of limits
> to put around it.
>
> As far as I know, no one ever had significant time/bandwidth to resolve
> this issue.
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
> On 28/05/12 04:54 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>> what do you mean with "host records are correct"?
>> if you mean matching PTR ->  no, no and again: no
>> it is a bgu in openvas that if you configure
>> a hostname as target the default vhost is accessed
>> due missing host headers from the scanner
>>
>> Am 28.05.2012 22:31, schrieb Scott Damron:
>>
>>> You need take sure the open as server can resolve DNS.  If using
>>> internal DNS servers, make sure your host records
>>> are correct.
>>>
>>> On May 28, 2012 2:28 PM, "Juan José Pavlik Salles"<[email protected]<**
>>> mailto:[email protected]>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi, is it possible to make openvas scan a server with its hostname
>>> instead of its IP address? I've created a
>>>     target with its hostname but it doesn't work.
>>>
>>
>>
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