Timeouts

[Brennon Williams]

I have just upgraded my server to the latest version last night, which I see
has separate settings for the Nmap wrapper.
I am doing a little trial and error with timings and so forth and everything
seems to be going well.

Cheers & Beers to you George! Thanks very much for your help.



-----Original Message-----
From: nessus-bounces at list.nessus.org
[mailto:nessus-bounces at list.nessus.org]On Behalf Of George Theall
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 2:37 AM
To: Nessus
Subject: Re: Timeouts

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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