<div>Sullo,</div><div><br></div><div>I have a similar error with db_tests with a BackTrack, i.e. BT5R1-GNOME-VM-32, which I have reproduced below:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">root@bt:/pentest/web/nikto# ./<a href="http://nikto.pl">nikto.pl</a> -update</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">+ Retrieving 'db_tests'</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">+ ERROR: Unable to get CIRT.net/nikto/UPDATES/2.1.4/db_tests</font></div>
<div><br></div><div>I can't retrieve "db_tests" with a web browser (Chrome) or wget as confirmed by the 200 OK HTTP Status Code quoted below:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">root@bt:/pentest/web/nikto# wget <a href="http://CIRT.net/nikto/UPDATES/2.1.4/db_tests">http://CIRT.net/nikto/UPDATES/2.1.4/db_tests</a></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">--2011-10-27 02:52:01-- <a href="http://cirt.net/nikto/UPDATES/2.1.4/db_tests">http://cirt.net/nikto/UPDATES/2.1.4/db_tests</a></font></div><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Resolving cirt.net... 174.142.17.165</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Connecting to <a href="http://cirt.net">cirt.net</a>|174.142.17.165|:80... connected.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><b>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Length: 1165182 (1.1M) [text/plain]</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Saving to: `db_tests'</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">100%[===================================================>] 1,165,182 30.2K/s in 43s </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">2011-10-27 02:52:44 (26.6 KB/s) - `db_tests' saved [1165182/1165182]</font></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>This error is occurring now (i.e. 6PM Australian Eastern Standard Time) so ignore the timestamp in the example above i.e. <i>02:52:01.</i></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Sullo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:csullo@gmail.com">csullo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I am unable to duplicate this behavior... seems to be working ok for<br>
me. Anyone else having issues?<br>
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Zaki Akhmad <<a href="mailto:zakiakhmad@gmail.com">zakiakhmad@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello list,<br>
> I am trying to update my nikto 2.1.4, then I get the following error:<br>
> root@think:/home/za/tools/nikto/nikto-2.1.4# ./<a href="http://nikto.pl" target="_blank">nikto.pl</a> -update<br>
> + Retrieving 'db_tests'<br>
> + Retrieving 'db_outdated'<br>
> + ERROR: Unable to get CIRT.net/nikto/UPDATES/2.1.4/db_outdated<br>
> What's wrong with this update process?<br>
> Thanks!<br>
> --<br>
> Zaki Akhmad<br>
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