On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:16:12PM -0500, John Kapp wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem with 1.3.7 (and previous versions) where Nessus is always doing
>a reverse DNS lookup on the addresses being scanned. I have confirmed that "Do a
>reverse lookup on IP..." and "Perform reverse zone transfer" are not selected.
>Further I've disabled all plugins and turned off the port scanner, yet it still does
>the reverse lookup. I'm running Nessus on a Linux 2.2.x box.
It needs to do a reverse lookup internally so that it can properly test
the web servers (and use some kind of FQDN instead of just an IP
address).
-- Renaud
