inetd Services Sometimes Fail on Solaris

[Security Focused]

inetd services sometimes fail when scans are run against systems running 
Solaris 2.8. This occurs in less than 10% of systems/scans. The service 
that fails most often is telnetd but al least one other (local 
application) service has failed. Existing telnet sessions are not 
affected but new sessions cannot be opened until inetd is restarted, or, 
sometimes, when inetd recovers (by itself).

My nessusrc file is configured with (Plugins tab) 'Enable all but 
dangerous plugins' option and (Scan options tab) 'Port range' set to 
1-15000. The configuration is otherwise the default config that you get 
when you first turn up Nessus. Nessus is 2.0.10 for Linux running on 
Fedora Core 2.

Has anyone seen this kind of behavior using Nessus against Solaris systems?

-- Mike

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