Re: Nessus Batch Scan Terminates

On Mar 27, 2006, at 7:11 PM, Kenneth Shelton wrote:

> We routinely scan our entire class B subnet monthly.  As we are a  
> University, we are very compartmentalized and the scans are,  
> therefore, broken up into chunks.  We have run into an issue that  
> the nessus client (ran from a seperate machine as the nessus  
> daemon) receives a connection termination from the nessus daemon in  
> the middle of most of the larger scans.  Last month I tracked down  
> a specific scan that was giving us a problem and isolated the  
> problem to one class C which, when scanned even by itself would  
> still cause a crash the majority of the time, but it did actually  
> complete the scan once.  Now about 5-7 blocks larger blocks are  
> crashing in the middle of the scans and the issue has us pooling  
> our hair out.
>
>
> Here are the arguments being passed to the client:
>
> nessus -V -q -T xml
>
> Here is the output from the nessus daemon
>
> secscan1 logs # nessusd -v
> nessusd (Nessus) 2.3.1 for Linux

Nessus 2.3.x is highly unstable. I recommand upgrading to Nessus 3  
which scales better when doing bigger scans.



                                                -- Renaud
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