Re: Name resolution

also make sure your admins have enabled reverse lookup :)
When I was first setting up nessus I couldn't get any names against my ips.
I found out that we hadn't set up reverse lookups because we were a
99.9%windows environment and we were letting wins do the work.  not
anymore :)

On 10/25/06, George A. Theall <theall@tenablesecurity.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 05:21:09PM +0100, Morris, Philip (JSY) wrote:
>
> > As we use DHCP for our workstations can Nessus resolve the IP address to
> > its host name or Netbios name in the report?
>
> Nessus can report by IP address, hostname, or MAC address (for hosts on
> your local subnet). If you are specifying IP addresses as your targets
> but want hostnames, make sure you check "Do a reverse lookup on the IP
> before testing it" in the unix GUI under "General scan options" or
> enable reverse_lookup in the client; if instead, you want MAC addresses,
> then make sure "Designate hosts by their MAC address" is checked, also
> under "General scan options".
>
> As for Netbios names, no, I don't think so, but you report them with
> plugin #10150, netbios_name_get.nasl.
>
> George
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