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Date:      Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:57:09 -0800
From:      "Richard Yang" <kusanagiyang@gmail.com>
To:        "Jeff Laine" <wtf.jlaine@gmail.com>, "Richard Yang" <kusanagiyang@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nessus report
Message-ID:  <abd417bf0812192157n574038edi4c3e501bb0f45f06@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081220054238.GA78194@free.bsd.loc>
References:  <abd417bf0812192132l1e99cfccyc297f32f388428ea@mail.gmail.com> <20081220054238.GA78194@free.bsd.loc>

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i havent tried nmap yet, but you said it also detected the remote, though no
port is open?

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Jeff Laine <wtf.jlaine@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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>
>


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Best Regards

Richard Yang
richardyang@richardyang.net
kusanagiyang@gmail.com



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