Re: Bug? Nessus can't parse it's own generated .nbe file??

Jason Haar wrote:

> In the end I had to turn off both tcp and icmp ping options and 
> configure it to use the nmap scanner option. After that it went off 
> and found all the hosts successfully and produced an .nbe file. Then I 
> ran "nessus -i file.nbe -T text -o -" - zero hosts found!
>
> The .nbe file is 74K in size - I really don't think that's zero hosts! 
> There are "host_start" and "host_end" records for each of the hosts, 
> and plenty of Security Note/Warning/<ahem>/etc - it all looks fine to 
> me - but "Number of hosts which were alive during the test : 0"

My mistake. I missed the fact that I was preprocessing the nbe file - 
and my preprocessor only correctly handled IP addresses - no hostnames.

So all my fault - sorry to waste your time. Nothing to see here! Move 
on! ;-)

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Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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