On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:04:31AM -0500, Scott Galloway wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm sure this is possible and probably answered before, so apologies in
> advance...
>
> I want to use Nessus to scan a specific TCP port on a single target system
> that contains, for example, a known web server/service. In this example,
> the web server/service is on a "non standard" port (i.e., it is not on port
> 80, but rather a high number "non well known" port). When using Nessus with
> pretty much the default settings, it could not determine a http server to be
> present on that high-number port -- yet, it is there (and confirmed to be
> there).
Make sure the port range includes the port of your webserver.
Ie: if your web server is on port 65534 and you set nessus to scan ports
1-15000 (the default), it won't see it. You should change the port range
to be 1-65535 (or 1-15000,65534).
-- Renaud
