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| Subject: | Re: Throttling down scans |
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| Date: | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:49:19 +0200 |
On Thu Aug 26 2004 at 17:30, Christopher J Bidwell wrote:
We are using a lot of routers with firewall featureset within them. During the scanning process, it opens up hundreds of half-open connections filling the state tables of the routers thereby causing a DOS on the network.
The problem probably comes from the port scanners. If you can, use snmpwalk or netstat and disable the other port scanners. Or run nmap with "polite" timing, maybe. _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list Nessus@list.nessus.org http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
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