Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:42:38 +0300 From: Jeff Laine <wtf.jlaine@gmail.com> To: Richard Yang <kusanagiyang@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nessus report Message-ID: <20081220054238.GA78194@free.bsd.loc> In-Reply-To: <abd417bf0812192132l1e99cfccyc297f32f388428ea@mail.gmail.com> References: <abd417bf0812192132l1e99cfccyc297f32f388428ea@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:32:51PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: > hi, > when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect "the remote host is > up". > i don't understand how nessus can detect it... > does anyone know how it is done? > thanx > > rich I can't tell about nessus but nmap does so after discovering any open ports, TCP RST responses from closed ports or ICMP responses from your host. I believe it's similar with the nessuss. -- Best regards, Jeff () X-mas ribbon campaign /\
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