On Jul 21, 2005, at 9:49, I am WE4SEL wrote:
Hi List,
actually this is not too much of a problem but still I'm wondering
why it is
doing this.
I have a configfile that the nessus command line client uses to get
the scan
configuration. The scan itself is started like this:
nessus -T nbe -xqV -c <configfile> <server> <port> <user>
<password>
<hostfile> <reportfile.nbe>
Now, in my configfile it clearly says
port_range = 1-10000
but the console output of nessus shows
portscan|<host>|0|65535
portscan|<host>|65535|65535
It's a trick to make sure the progress bar on the client is set to 0
then to "the end" -- since some of the port scanners (ie: nmap) do
not have the ability to tell you their exact status.
You're really scanning ports 1-10000.
-- Renaud
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