nessus report

[Richard Yang]

i havent tried nmap yet, but you said it also detected the remote, though no
port is open?

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Jeff Laine <wtf.jlaine at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:32:51PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote:
> > hi,
> > when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect "the remote host
> is
> > up".
> > i don't understand how nessus can detect it...
> > does anyone know how it is done?
> > thanx
> >
> > rich
>
> I can't tell about nessus but nmap does so after discovering any open
> ports,
> TCP RST responses from closed ports or ICMP responses from your host.
> I believe it's similar with the nessuss.
>
>
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> Jeff
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