Re: nessus hangs

On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:04 PM, IMAP Oskar wrote:

> How can I get this scan to move on.
> It is not doing anything for several hours.
> Tried another scan this morning, with different IP addresses, it got
> stuck, similar to the one below, for three hours, nothing. So I  
> killed it.
> The list this morning contained about 20 IP addresses. The one it  
> stuck
> on was towards the end of the list.
>
> Then I tried again, but it is giving me the exact same behaviour, but
> with a different IP adress.
> This new list only contains about 10 IP addresses.
> Again the IP address it stuck on was towards the end of the list.
>
> Is there an option I can enable so it sets a timeout for this, or  
> kills
> these after a certain amount of time ?

It seems that you're using nmap as a port scanner, which is not really  
ideal[1]. Try the Nessus built-in TCP scanner and let us know if that  
works for you.


Thanks,

                                -- Renaud


[1] http://www.nessus.org/documentation/index.php?doc=nmap-usage
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