Methinks your "Nessus" took on the behavior of a
DoS attack, and your HP suffered the "Scan O'Death".

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lane Rollins [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 6:31 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Network Security
>
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> This is to the Network Security Gurus out there. We have a
>client that is
>> testing the security of their HP 3000 & we are running into
>a few snags. The
>> only services that we are running (or atleast that we know
>of), are Apache
>> and VT. They are using the Security Scanner "Nessus".
>>
>> The scan that was performed completely locked up the 3000
>and forced us to
>> restart the server. Can anyone tell me what the problem might be?
>>
>> The output from Nessus follows,
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Pete
>
>I saw something similar on 6.0 with a freeware port scanner. I
>didn't lock
>the machine, but it did confuse the hell out of inetd. VT
>continued to work,
>but telnet, samba and ftp where OTL. I just aborted inetd and
>restarted it.
>
>-Lane
>
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