Re: Question concering how nessus works when servicing are not running on their standard ports

[Renaud Deraison <deraison_at_nessus.org>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:24:28PM +0000, Ashutosh Naik wrote:
> Suppose if more than two services are run on a machine
> on the same port..
> 
> Say, I run both http and smtp on port 80, then does
> the find_service populate the kb with items
> corresponding to both the services?

Nessus is meant to audit real-world networks, not fantasy-worlds systems
that don't even work on the paper.

So I don't know what will happen, but since you can not run both
protocols on the same port, I don't think we really need to think about
that possibility.


				-- Renaud