Scan time issues

[George Theall]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 05:05:54PM -0500, Keyur Lavingia wrote:

>    When I do a scan, nmap is being run for all the hosts on all the ports
>    for the port scan and then for the all the plugins as well.

I'm not clear on the last part -- "and then for all the plugins as
well". 

>    I want to first
>    try and ping the target, and just proceed to the next target if nessus
>    cannot ping it. 
...
>    begin(SCANNER_SET)
...
>     11219 = yes

This is a SYN scanner; get rid of it. ping_host.nasl (10180) will flag 
hosts that are down and they should then be skipped.

George
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theall at tifaware.com
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