On Friday 21 February 2003 12:12, Renaud Deraison wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:45:40AM +0000, John Baker wrote:
> > > Apparently you inserted a return-carriage in the target, and Nessus
> > > could not resolve the name (it's a bug though, it should yell at you).
> >
> > Oh! I see! That's just my pasting :) It really puts:
> >
> > www.jackie-oliver.co.uk, with max_hosts = 30
> >
> > in the logs.
> >
> > I think it's broken, perhaps it's a configuration error? This on version
> > 1.2.7
>
> Whatever it is, it means your name server can not resolve this host
> name - be it a typo or whatever. This is not a bug in Nessus.

I'm also rather unconvinced it should do anything at all if it can't resolve 
the host. You can't scan a broadcast address, it just seems to make no sense.


John

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John Baker, BSc CS.
Java Developer, TEAM EAA.. http://www.teamenergy.com
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