If you are doing a complete scan of tcp AND udp ports, you'll usually see the scan appear to hang at 99%. It'll take a while it's the nature of udp scans, atleast on non windows boxes. You cn take a look at the nmap man page for what I'm refering to.
Adam Mazza On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Tony Howlett wrote: > I am using nessus in doing some assessments of large networks. I have > noticed that nessus often "hangs" at the end of the nmap portion of the > test for long periods of time. Is this just because its busy working its > way through the 65K other ports or is there some other reason? Is there a > way to get around this and still have a complete test? > > Thanks for an input >
