Re: Not able to scan with Nessus-3.1.3

Hello Varun,



On May 8, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Varun Chandramohan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>             This is the first time iam using nessus. I installed the
> latest Nessus-3.1.3-suse10.0.i586.rpm on opensuse. I got the server up
> and running. Then i installed the NessusClient also on the same  
> system.
> I first tried to run it using cmd line client. I got an error
>
> *** The plugins that have the ability to crash remote services or  
> hosts
> have been disabled. You should activate them if you want your security
> audit to be complete
>
> I solved it by using ./update-nessusrc -c  
> "attack,infos,mixed,scanner,settings,denial,destructive_attack,kill_ho 
> st" ./policy.txt
>
> I ran my client using /opt/nessus/bin/nessus -c ./policy.txt  
> 127.0.0.1 1241 nessus nessus123 ./ipv6.txt ./output.txt
>
> where ipv6.txt contains fe80::215:58ff:fe7e:c037%eth0
>
> I followed the steps followed as given in http:// 
> blog.tenablesecurity.com/2007/04/nessus_32_beta_.html
>
> My aim is to test on ipv6. This does not seem to work, the client  
> seem to return and in the output.txt i find nothing.
> Please tell me what is wrong. I even tried with simple ipv4 scan  
> address 127.0.0.1, still i dont get any result.
> Iam attaching my policy.txt with the mail. Please help.

Could you check what is said in /opt/nessus/var/nessus/logs/ 
nessusd.messages and show it to us ?
(also, make sure that IPv6 is enabled on your nessusd host -- can you  
'ping6' the remote IP ?)


Thanks,

                                -- Renaud
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