Re: Single host (or hosts) scan seems to hang

Hi Joe,

Please try Nessus 3.2.1 for FreeBSD 7.0. FreeBSD 6 was not compatible
with with Nessus's process/thread management and we discontinued support
for it.

Ron Gula
Tenable Network security



Joe Lawson wrote:
> Sorry, the scan never stops and does not progress past the last entry in
> nessusd.messages: "launching ping_host.nasl against x.x.x.x"
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Gula
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:55 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Single host (or hosts) scan seems to hang
> 
> Joe Lawson wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm running a client Nessus 3 (v3.2.1.1) on an XP SP2 box and going 
>> against a FreeBSD6 v3.2.0 version of Nessus and the scan starts but 
>> never stops (this against a single host, ms security bulletins and 
>> lasts
>>> 1 hour).
>> Anyone have an idea of why this seems to hang up?
> 
> Are you saying the scan lasts an hour, or that it never stops? I'm not
> sure what your issue is. Are you concerned of the hour scan time (this
> does seem high) or does the scan never actually finish?
> 
> Ron Gula
> Tenable Network Security
> 
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