Nice to see you back!

I could suggest people follow our procedures and report them to the ntop /
ntop-dev list, vs. maintaining a separate system of 3 year old bug reports.

But, here's some rough thoughts:

(1) Anything reported against 2.x and (especially vague ones like #179751)
should be closed.  Anything to do with seg faults and memory needs to be
retested against the 3.1 release.  This is esp. true of memory bugs reported
against 2.x (we no longer resize hashes, so all of that code has been
reworked).  I routinely run under valgrind and fix anything I find.

(2) Memory problems need to be run under gdb/valgrind so we get accurate
reports, not vague ones.  Especially informationless ones.

So that leaves us with:

#249878: ntop: insecure default config, leaks possibly sensitive information

Package: ntop; Reported by: Marek Michalkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 340
days old. 

Suggestion: Read privacynotice.html page (available through the web
interface, About | What is ntop) 


#250217: ntop: sometimes shows parts of host names 
Package: ntop; Reported by: Marek Michalkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 338
days old. 

Response: There were a lot of fixes in this area in 3.1 and so it needs to
be retested first.  Make sure you delete the dns cache .db file so as not to
perpetuate corrupted data.  If this is still a problem, I'd like to see a
packet capture and the counts from the info.html page to ascertain whether
ntop is getting the bad data from DNS sniffing.


#260030: ntop packet dump has bad header 
Package: ntop; Reported by: "David M. Dowdle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
280 days old. 

Response: Known problem - don't know why it's happening - it looks like the
packet header is overflowing (negative?) but this needs a patched version of
libpcap to debug (the tcpdump message is just a pass through from libpcap,
which doesn't identify the cause).


#269882: ntop: Can't get web pages (gzflush error -2) 
Package: ntop; Reported by: Alberto Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tags:
moreinfo, unreproducible; 232 days old. 

Response: Retest.  This happens when memory chains are corrupted - libz is
just much more sensitive to it than anyone else.  I thought all cases had
been fixed in  3.1 - there haven't been any reports of this problem
re-occuring.


#288006: ntop leaks memory 
Package: ntop; Reported by: Jerome Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 114 days
old. 

Response: See (2)



-----Burton


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Ola Lundqvist
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 2:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Ntop-dev] Debian bugs.

Hello

I have now got some more free time to spend on Debian packaging and
therefore I'm trying to resolve the ones with "normal" severity and not just
the important and serious ones.

Therefore I'm asking you all for advice on a number of Debian bugs.
The list is available on: http://bugs.debian.org/ntop

If you could help me to determine if some of them are fixed or how it can be
fixed it would be really great.

Ignore #238500 and #295846 as they are packaging related. All others are
general ntop problems.

Thanks in advance,

// Ola

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