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Re: Nessus portscan takes loooooong



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, but I've been running normal...

I've tried insane too. Don't know what that implies, but it sounds 
fast... :-) Also, I've tried custom, with some small values... 


> I don't know about this, though. I don't use nessus myself, so
> perhaps it has actually nothing to do with the timing-policy at
> all...

Thanks for the response anyway! :-) 

Cheers,

Kjetil
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