Re: "unscanned ports closed" now appears to be broken?

Jason Haar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Organization Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Renaud Deraison wrote:
>
> You probably enabled the "portscanner" plugin#34220 which causes some
> re-ordering and causes this bug.

Hmm

# grep 34220 .nessusrc
 34220 = no

I don't think that's it?

>
> In the short term, you should disable it if you want 'unscanned ports
> as closed to work'. Another option would be to keep it enabled, to
> disable the option "consider unscanned ports as closed" and edit
> nessusd.rules to prevent connecting to the ports you do not want to
> connect to.
>
> ie:
>
> reject 0.0.0.0/0:1024-65535
>
> would forbid nessusd from connecting to these ports.
>

We use nessusd for much more that just this "windows lite" scan - will
that global reject rule break more thorough scans?

Thanks

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Jason Haar
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