Re: Service identification

Michael Scheidell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> [so far, this is slower than the current behaviour. Maybe we should
> still send the GET request?]
> 
> One or two other NASL plugins will be in charge of sending "HELP / 
> HTTP/1.0" or "HELP" on "mute" services.
> 
> One NASL plugin will parse the banners and decide if the service can
> be identified or if more information is needed. e.g. anything that
> answers with something like 3 digits followed by a space or a minus
> sign might be a FTP service, NNTP, SMTP etc. Requests like EHLO or
> HELP should avoid false identifications.
don't forget to ignore 'printers' if asked to.
don't want 120 printers to all say 'help' on the first page on every
nessus run.!~

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