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Re: What is this situation???

Subject: Re: What is this situation???
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:40:35 +0200

On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:57 PM, francesco sottini wrote:

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?

You can force Nessus to disable pinging the remote host prior to  
scanning. Edit your policy -> advanced -> "Ping the remote host" and  
uncheck all the boxes (ICMP ping, TCP ping and ARP ping).



                                        -- Renaud


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