Re: better timeout values for WAN-based scans?

Michel Arboi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Organization Nessus
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Thursday 21 August 2008 23:13:06 Jason Haar wrote:
> Sorry - I forgot to mention I don't think this is a congestion problem.

Then try to increase the network timeouts.

> I've just checked the nessus.messages file again - and I am actually
> getting "killing" errors (some webpage on Google told me to look for
> "killed"

Increase the script timeout too.

> That's a seven minute timeout - that's quite long. 

Is thorough_tests enabled? If so, disable it.
Which version of smb_hotfixes were you running? The latest version is quicker.

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