Nessus 2.2.0 - Hanging on down hosts

[George Theall]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:54:26AM -0600, Sawall, Christopher L wrote:

> Ok.  I tried this and verified the setting "reverse_lookup = no" in the
> .nessusrc file that I am using.  So far, the same results

I'm sorry, I should have asked you also to use a non-existent IP address
for the target; ie, one on your network but not currently assigned. 

Don't bother, though; I think this is a serious bug.  I just tried this
myself and observed nessusd hammering my nameserver - 66000+ queries in
a bit over 1 minute!!! Do you want to open up a bug report in Bugzilla
or should I?

> If I do the invalid host w/ it's FQDN, the results are:

The dig results seem ok. 

George
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theall at tifaware.com
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