Re: Scan terminates after just one subnet (Nessus 2.2.4) BUG!

Well, I have situations here in which, due to list maintenance problems, 
it is easier for me to pass a long list of individual machines instead 
of a miriad of tiny little ranges.

Perhaps Nicolas could work on (b) for the next release, if that's an option.

Alex

Renaud Deraison wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:38:44AM -0400, Alex Campoe wrote:
>
> > So, is there a limit on the number of characters/hosts you can pass to 
> > nessus? 
>
>
> 2Gb.
>
>
> > This would be an issue for scans in general, not only involving 
> > NessusWX.
>
>
> It only affects NessusWX. The issue is that NessusWX :
>
>  a) Pre-computes the list of IPs to scan (it should send a range and
>     let nessusd compute what to scan)
>
>  b) Misuses the communication protocol and uses the 'short' scan-start
>     message instead of the long version.
>
>
>
>
>                             -- Renaud
>
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