I compiled Nessus unstable successfully on an old Compaq Pentium III 600 I've been allowed to play with, which in turn is running a bare bones installation of Debian Sarge. Scanning my home network from the inside produces reports, but when attempting to scan a friend's machine across the net, the scan ends after less than a minute with an 'nessusd returned an empty report' message. Prior to initiating the scan I plugged the nessus box directly into the Adelphia cable modem after unplugging my firewall box (and hence, my home network). The nessus box is not running a firewall; although, it's been hardened somewhat. After getting the 'empty report' message, I pinged my friend's IP successfully. The nessusd.messsages entries for the scan are:
[Sun Aug 22 10:28:09 2004][1308] user mark starts a new attack. Target(s) : 64.222.151.148, with max_hosts = 20 and max_checks = 4 [Sun Aug 22 10:28:09 2004][1308] user mark : testing 64.222.151.148 (64.222.151.148) [1309] [Sun Aug 22 10:28:16 2004][1309] user mark : launching ssh_settings.nasl against 64.222.151.148 [1310] [Sun Aug 22 10:28:16 2004][1309] user mark : launching global_settings.nasl against 64.222.151.148 [1311] [Sun Aug 22 10:28:16 2004][1309] global_settings.nasl (process 1311) finished its job in 0.468 seconds [Sun Aug 22 10:28:16 2004][1309] ssh_settings.nasl (process 1310) finished its job in 0.491 seconds [Sun Aug 22 10:28:16 2004][1309] user mark : launching ping_host.nasl against 64.222.151.148 [1312] [Sun Aug 22 10:28:20 2004][1309] ping_host.nasl (process 1312) finished its job in 3.988 seconds [Sun Aug 22 10:28:20 2004][1309] user mark : launching TLD_wildcard.nasl against 64.222.151.148 [1313] [Sun Aug 22 10:28:20 2004][1309] user mark : The remote host (64.222.151.148) is dead [Sun Aug 22 10:28:21 2004][1309] Finished testing 64.222.151.148. Time : 11.31 secs [Sun Aug 22 10:28:21 2004][1308] user mark : test complete Am I doing something clueless? Or is my friend's ISP (Verizon DSL) preventing us from having fun? Thanks for any help. Roger _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
