Re: a quick problem with nessus:

Ron Gula <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got a question; I've got nessus installed, and the demon is configured,
> when I use nessus localhost 1421 <user> <pass> targets file results.txt
> I get no hosts were up during the scan as one of the lines in the results.txt file.
> Any ideas would be awesome; I'm not quite sure why it's not sensing the target.
> The one and only line in my targets file is:
> 192.168.0.66

Have you been able to complete a scan with a Nessus client of some sort already?

Have you looked at the logs of your Nessus server?

Have you tried sniffing the connection between the scanner and the target?

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security
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