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
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