Valid "Empy report" messages?

[George Theall]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:17:57AM -0800, Erin Carroll wrote:

> running 2.2.2a with good results against a variety of
> hosts. However, with the same successful and
> error-free setup there are certain hosts which
> generate an "Empty Report" message. 

This occurs when Nessus thinks the target is dead.  Assuming it was
truly up and reachable when the scan ran, this can mean either the
target is a printer and you enabled plugin #11933 or, more likely, the
ping_host or nmap scanner failed.  In the event of the latter, you may
find success in tweaking the port range used for the scan to include any
ports you know are open on the targets and ensuring you're using a TCP
rather than an ICMP ping. 

George
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theall at tifaware.com
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