Nessus 2.2.0 - Hanging on down hosts

[George Theall]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 08:40:51PM -0600, Sawall, Christopher L wrote:

> Has anyone had a problem with 2.2.0 hanging when trying to scan a host
> that was down?  

Works fine for me.

> If I purposely put just one host as the target that does
> not exist, it takes about 56 minutes for the tests to fail and Nessus to
> return to a state that I can move around.  

What sort of port scanner(s) are you using? Are you scanning UDP ports, by
any chance?

> If I have a list of hosts and
> have a host in the middle that is down, Nessus hangs when it gets to
> that host.  Also, once it finally fails against the downed host, it
> aborts the rest of the scans, saves what it haves and quits.

You mean it doesn't scan the remaining hosts at all? What do you have 
for max_hosts?

Mind sending snippets of the nessusd logs around the time this happens?

George
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theall at tifaware.com
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