bind() failed : Cannot assign requested address ??

[Brennon Williams]

Cheers George,

I don't know if it's the fact that I have just reformatted my box and put
the latest Nessus server on there but I swear to you that the command line
with switch -a, is how I have started it in the past. Yes I have 2 nic's on
the server but neither of them have the 192.168.0.2 address now or at
anytime in the past.

I have written my own client that is on my dev box with the afore mentioned
IP address, and previously until I ran the -a command and switch I could not
get even NessusWX to connect.

I have now just run it in standard Nessusd -D and have connected no problems
to it from both my client and NessusWX.

As a side note, the client used to download 151 server preferences and now
only downloads 137. I am wondering if this has to do with the switches from
the client to the server.

Thanks very much for all your help George. This matter is resolved and now I
have an even better understanding of the switches.

Congrats on the book!, It has been a great read so far, filling in quite a
few gaps. I hope I can somehow help in the future.

Kind regards,

Brennon Williams


-----Original Message-----
From: nessus-bounces at list.nessus.org
[mailto:nessus-bounces at list.nessus.org]On Behalf Of George Theall
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 2:33 AM
To: nessus at list.nessus.org
Subject: Re: bind() failed : Cannot assign requested address ??

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 02:28:56AM -0000, Brennon Williams wrote:

> The way I read the instructions was that I needed to run this command in
> order to allow my client running on the machine with an ip of 192.168.0.2
to
> get access to it...

No, it's the address on the nessusd machine that clients will specify
should connect to; ie, it's the address of the nessus server.

> I have both a root user and an additional user..

But is root used to start nessusd?


George
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theall at tifaware.com