·:[ Jason On A Shtick ]:·
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I have NetReg 1.5.1 (along with my personal customizations to it) running in a Fedora Core 6 Xen VM and using the Nessus 3.0.5-fc6 rpm. Here’s the skinny:

• Get NetReg from http://www.netreg.org
• Get the Nessus RPM from http://www.nessus.org
• yum install httpd for Apache.
• yum install mod_ssl for https communications.
• yum install dhcp for the DHCP server.
• yum install bind for the DNS server.
• yum install php to support PHP for my modifications.
• yum install php-pear for an easy way to obtain PHP packages.
• pear config-set http_proxy http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3128 for me, since I’m behind a firewall and using a proxy.
• pear install HTTP_Request to get a PHP class required by my code.
• rpm -i Nessus-3.0.5-fc6.i386.rpm to install the Nessus rpm.
• yum install gcc for the GNU C compiler to build Perl modules.
• yum install openssl-devel for SSL libraries required by some Perl modules.

Now you have everything you need to set up NetReg and Nessus. You can follow the NetReg install guide for the most part, changing only your approach to the Nessus section since you downloaded an rpm instead.

In place of the DNS configuration that allows certain names to be looked up for real, my situation warrants a completely bogus DNS. I have reused DNS configuration from older versions of Netreg, namely:

/var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf looks like this:

server 172.16.1.21 {
bogus yes;
};

options {
directory “/var/named”;
recursion no;
};

zone “.” in {
type master;
file “db.root”;
};

and /var/named/chroot/var/named/db.root looks like this:

. IN SOA netreg.someplace.org. root.netreg.someplace.org. (
1 10800 3600 604800 86400 )
IN NS netreg.someplace.org.
netreg 86400 IN A 172.16.1.21
*. 86400 IN A 172.16.1.21