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Re: Still having problems getting port scanner to work

Subject: Re: Still having problems getting port scanner to work
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:05:39 -0400
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 09:49:59AM -0700, sidewalk_chicken@hushmail.com wrote:

> For some reason, my port scanner does not
seem to be running, and according to my .nessusrc I have the following scanners enabled:

10335 (TCP Scanner) and 11219 (SYN Scanner).

Have you looked in the nessusd.messages logfile? Just a guess, but you may be having trouble because ping_host.nasl, on which both these scanners depend, is flagging the target(s) as dead. If so, see this post for some ideas:



http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus/2006-August/msg00058.html

George
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