Re: Nessus portscan takes loooooong

2003-11-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:03:04PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > However, the initial portscan takes an extremely long time... Actually, > I haven't seen it finish, because I had to turn my computer off at > night... :-) But something like 10 hours, it seems like it would need > to do a portsc

Re: Nessus portscan takes loooooong

2003-11-14 Thread Brent Miller
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > One thing I've come to think about: My ISP has suffered many > DDoS-attacks, I have no idea why. However, could it be that they have > installed a firewall on the router that makes this go so slow? Possible. Maybe they've installed something like psad on their system. If

Re: Nessus portscan takes loooooong

2003-11-14 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Friday 14 November 2003 12:55, Johannes Zarl wrote: > The duration of an nmap varies greatly dependant of the timing policy > you use. For example paranoid (-T0) leaves 5min between two scans, > resulting in roughly 350 (approx. number of services in > /etc/services) * 5min ~= 29 hours. Yeah, b

Re: Nessus portscan takes loooooong

2003-11-14 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Thanks for the reply! One thing I've come to think about: My ISP has suffered many DDoS-attacks, I have no idea why. However, could it be that they have installed a firewall on the router that makes this go so slow? On Friday 14 November 2003 20:27, Brent Miller wrote: > Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:

Re: Nessus portscan takes loooooong

2003-11-14 Thread Brent Miller
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > However, the initial portscan takes an extremely long time... Actually, > I haven't seen it finish, because I had to turn my computer off at > night... :-) But something like 10 hours, it seems like it would need > to do a portscan... WTF? There's is a progress bar, it

Re: Nessus portscan takes loooooong

2003-11-14 Thread Johannes Zarl
> However, the initial portscan takes an extremely long time... Actually, > I haven't seen it finish, because I had to turn my computer off at > night... :-) But something like 10 hours, it seems like it would need > to do a portscan... WTF? There's is a progress bar, it moves this slow. > > It is

Nessus portscan takes loooooong

2003-11-14 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi folks! I decided it was about time I ran anoth full Nessus attack against my main server, especially now that my workstation is running Sid, so I get the latest nessus. However, the initial portscan takes an extremely long time... Actually, I haven't seen it finish, because I had to turn my