Re: .What is this situation???

No, i cannot ping directly to it.

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Norma <norma.snockers@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>  You may find that they are configured not to respond to ICMP ping.
>
> Can you ping them via command prompt?
>
> If it is the case then turn this option off in the nessus client.
>
>
>
>
>  *From:* francesco sottini <francesco.sot@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:57 PM
> *To:* nessus@list.nessus.org
> *Subject:* What is this situation???
>
> Dears,
>
> I am doing an university project and the final goal is to scan 4 hosts and
> report all the problems that we meet.
> Well, the 4 hosts are on a private network. to scan them, we have to
> connect with the nessus client to a nessus server and then scan the target.
> The problem is that for an host, i obtain always the result:" The remote
> host is considered as dead - not scanning".
>
> I suppose that on that host, declared fromt he professor "an hard
> challenge", there is a kind of IDS or honeypot..
>
> what can i do?
>
> Thanks!
> Best Regards,
>
> --
> Francesco S.
>
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