Updating Plugins During A Scan

[Paul Johnston]

Hi,

>>I am sure just sending Nessus a HUP is not quite enough for updating
>>the plugins. I've updated the plugins, done a HUP, and had weird
>>inconsistencies
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>>
>What kind of inconsistencies?
>  
>
Two problems were encountered:

1) Some hosts would not get scanned. There were hosts with no/obscure 
open ports. There's a message in nessusd.messages that "host is down, 
skipping" and no knowledge base file is created.

2) Some HTTP vulnerabilities were missed. I didn't do a detailed post 
mortem.

This happened repeatably (at least 3 times) on a plugins update and 
problems went away with a stop and start.

I understand that a HUP is supposed to be enough, but this really happened!

Paul

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