Re: What is this situation???

ok,
thanks. you are right. I disable the ping and now i can scan the hsot...at
the moment i don't have results...

regards,
Francesco

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Renaud Deraison (lists) <
deraison-lists@nessus.org> wrote:

> 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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Francesco S.

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