External attacks are not working due to the external ip not being recognised.

[puzzledllama]

Hi

So I am currently working with my company to run some pentests.

The only problem is that we didn't have enough aws resources to host a new server, so we used Linode. Linode have recently created a kali image, all good, fun and games yay.

Except, it does not work.

So when I have kali open in a vm, is there anyway of using an external ip address so that when I launch specific attacks, that they can be accessed on a network other than mine?

I've been googling and trying this for weeks and no such luck yet, so thought that I may as well ask the experts!

Thanks in advance!

[Fred Sheehan]

Some things are designed to be run on a LAN, such as ARP for example, and that wont give any results on a remote host, as your not connecting to a MAC address..

scanning with nmap will work happily on remote hots, you haven't actually said what your using, Kali has many tools, not all work everywhere..