Dear Tom: Thanks a lot for your response.
We have Linux firewalls on all the servers. Firewall rules prevent servers from responding to icmp-echo or ping. Still, 4 of the 5 servers respond to nessus scan. It is one particular server which nessus fails to scan. Any other idea? Has anybody else on this list encountered this behavior? Regards. Ravi Verma 9167053261 -----Original Message----- From: Tony Howlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:47 PM To: Ravi Verma; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Nessus not scanning Ravi, Its possible that you have the "ping the host" setting on and the box is configured not to respond to pings (possible an XP machine with the built in firewall turned on?). This would cause the scan to skip that IP if it couldnt ping it. Have you tried actually pinging the box via the commandline? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ravi Verma Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Nessus not scanning Dear Friends: I will appreciate your help in this regard. We have 5 servers with public IP address. I am able to use nessus against 4 of them. But whenever I try to scan the fifth one, nessus shows status of 100% completion instantly and does not scan at all. I am perplexed because nessus is working perfectly well against the other four. I eagerly wait for your response. Regards. Ravi Verma (001) 916 705 3261 _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
