Re: How does nessus know exactly which application is running

[Renaud Deraison <deraison_at_nessus.org>]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:36:21AM +0000, Ashutosh Naik wrote:
> If you look at the order at which the plugins are
> launched.. find_services.nes is not the first plugin
> that is launched.. 

It's among the first. The plugins that are launched before either do
something which is not service related (ie: the icmp plugins) or related
to a fixed port service (udp/53 request). Read the plugins and their
dependencies, and it should make sense.


				-- Renaud