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Date:      Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:49:55 +0300
From:      Jeff Laine <wtf.jlaine@gmail.com>
To:        Richard Yang <kusanagiyang@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nessus report
Message-ID:  <20081220054955.GA15341@free.bsd.loc>
In-Reply-To: <abd417bf0812192141x6e458379va881c036a3fea565@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <abd417bf0812192132l1e99cfccyc297f32f388428ea@mail.gmail.com> <494C84D8.1090701@gmail.com> <abd417bf0812192141x6e458379va881c036a3fea565@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:41:46PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote:
> yes,but i dpn't know how...
> it looks to me that all ports are closed
> 
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:38 PM, michael <michael.copeland@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> > uh, maybe because it responded?
> >

Check your firewall settings and run tcpdump  to be sure your host not sending 
any replies after scan attempt.

-- 
Best regards,
Jeff

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