Timeouts

[George Theall]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:38:01AM -0000, Brennon Williams wrote:

>    In the nessusd.conf file, there are 2 settings for timeouts, 1 being
>    for plugin timeouts set to 320 seconds by default the other being a
>    checks_read_timeout set to 5 by default.
> 
> 
>    Does any of these 2 settings change the timeout of the port scanner,
>    so it doesn't hang for so long against targets that are not
>    responding?

You don't say which port scanner you're using.  The nmap port scanner
has options to control how long it spends on a given host -- look at
"Timing policy", "Host timeout", and the like.  In addition,
plugins_timeout should limit the time taken by *any* plugin. 

George
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theall at tifaware.com
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