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.jla...@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. > > > -- > Best regards, > Jeff > > () X-mas ribbon campaign > /\ > > -- Best Regards Richard Yang richardy...@richardyang.net kusanagiy...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
