Hi,

On 23.11.2016 10:00, Daniel Walker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 22.11.2016 13:37, Christian Fischer wrote:
>> did not report the service or the UDP port at all? You can see in a
>> hosts details (after the scan has finished) which open TCP and UDP ports
>> where identified.
> 
> It did not report the UDP port at all. In the host details, I have 0
> open UDP ports as well as 0 open TCP ports (expected, as the Port List
> did not contain any TCP ports).
> 
>> Somehow the firewall might block / limit the requests from the scanning 
>> machine.
> I agree. However, the thing I don't understand: why does nmap find the
> open port wheras OpenVAS does not? In case the firewall would limit
> the requests, I would expect that nmap cannot detect the open port
> too.

one explanation would be that the firewall is causing a long running UDP
scan (UDP scans are known to take a quite long time). If the nmap
scanning process from within OpenVAS is timing out you won't get the
open port back to OpenVAS.

Regards,

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