Re: Nessus stops

In scan.log there is a key phrase: "the remote host (ip address) is dead.
I know that it indeed is not
Any suggestions on how to remediate the problem?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Gula" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Nessus stops


> Michael Condon wrote:
>> Nessus 3 (win32) began doing this yesterday for some uknown reason - it
>> starts a scan and then just stops, no report whatsoever. I have
>> uninstalled/reinstalled, but get the same behavior.
>> How can I diagnose & resolve the issue?
>
> There could be a few things you could do:
>
> - open up a ticket with our support group. We help commercial Nessus users
>  diagnose these types of issues all the time. There are a variety of 
> firewall,
>  security and network settings that can mess with Nessus.
>
> - you can look at your logs. Logs for Nessus windows are in
>  C:\Program Files\Tenable\Nessus\logs by default. There is a separate 
> scan.log
>  and server.log.
>
> Ron Gula
> Tenable Network Security
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