Re: nessus returning an empty report

["Robin Wood" <dninja () gmail com>]

Hi
A lot of people are suggesting the same things so a quick update on
what I've done so far.

There is communication between the client and server, I can log in to
the server from the client and get the plug in list back
I have subscribed to the home plug in feed and done an update. I have
the default set of plug ins selected
I have scanned localhost, 127.0.0.1 and other machines on the network,
all give empty report
There is no firewall in site and I can access (ssh, http, icmp etc)
all the machines I am scanning. Wireshark is working as I can see all
the other traffic my machine is generating while I'm trying to run the
scan.
Something I should have checked but didn't, Arch is still on version
2.2.9. This is for client and server so there isn't a version
mis-match but I had assumed I had version 3.
nessusd installed from the same package on a different arch server on
the same lan accepts connections from my client and will then scan all
the machines I've been trying, including the machine that doesn't
work.
I've mailed the nessus mailing list and had some suggestions from them.

I've been busy with other things the last couple of days but I'm going
to give it another go today or tomorrow.

Robin


2008/11/12 Khalid Shaikh <khalidshaikh () gmail com>:
> Hi Robin,
>
> What version of nessus are you running. I also faced a similar problem
> wherein I was running nessus on Red Hat Linux 9, I then upgraded the version
> of nessus and everything was fine after that.
>
> Hope this helps,
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Robin Wood <dninja () gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi
> > I've just installed nessus on a new machine and when I try to scan a
> > target I always get back an empty report message. I've got wireshark
> > running and no traffic gets sent from the scanner so the standard
> > answer to this problem of it being a ping issue doesn't help here.
> > Extra to that, the machines I've tried scanning are on my local
> > network, all respond to pings and are are up and not firewalled in any
> > way that would stop nessus at least finding them.
> >
> > I had this problem with another machine ages ago and it turned out to
> > be a kernel module that I was missing. I've tried googling to find the
> > fix that I found last time but I can't find it.
> >
> > Can anyone help? The server is running on an Archlinux distro if that
> > helps.
> >
> > Robin
> >
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