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RE: Nessus Plug-In Configuration -- is there a setting other than port scanner range that needs to be configured to setup a full TCP / UDP Scan - update
Hi there,

Regarding the UDP scanner, I've been working offline with Michel (who's been extremely helpful) and here's where we stand (turns out we may have found a bug)

-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Arboi [mailto:mikhail@nessus.org]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:37 AM
To: Charles Wu
Subject: Re: Another interesting log entry regarding udp_portscan.nbin

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:21:57 -0600
Charles Wu <cwu@ippay.com> wrote:

> [Sat Jan 03 17:25:15 009][3628] udp_portscan.nbin (pid 6) is slow to
> finish in 120 secs against 192.168.3.32 - killing it

> Do you think I need to increase the time-out setting per scan?

No. Consider this as a bug. We'll fix it (as well as another problem that
does not affect you). I'll keep you in touch.
-----Original Message-----

He sent me an updated plug-in this morning, and we're running it right now (UDP scans do take time =)

I'll keep the list posted on my results (hopefully it's positive =)

-Charles

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