On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2014, Thomas Reinke wrote:
> >> Probably would be good to understand and handle the logic in the nasl
> >> scripts that still rely on the "default" values...
> >
> > hm, which ones are these?
> 
> nmap.nasl, amap.nasl, portbunny.nasl, portscan-strobe.nasl, pnscan.nasl
> 
> In short, after you dig through code, it seems with a setting of
> default, invoking scanner_get_ports eventually finds it's way to
> the "getpts" function call, to get_tcp_svcs, which reads the
> openvas file /usr/local/var/lib/openvas/services.tcp, specifically
> to be able to get a list of ports.

According to openvas-libraries/ChangeLog, on 2013-03-01 the handling
of this file was removed. Same day the "default" was removed.
It was me who removed it and I remember this code part was a nightmare.


> So there's still a whole bunch of infrastructure, afaik, that is
> designed to support the concept of a 'default' scan, which would
> appear to be controlled by what is defined in these files.

On the Feed side the support of "default" was kept in order to
support OpenVAS-5 installations (but not for a long time anymore).




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