Hello On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:26:05PM -0500, Burton Strauss wrote: > Nice to see you back!
Thanks! > 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. :D > 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. Ok. > (2) Memory problems need to be run under gdb/valgrind so we get accurate > reports, not vague ones. Especially informationless ones. Ok. > 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. I'll try to make 3.1 work so it can be retested. > > #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). Ok. > > #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. Again I'll try to make 3.1 work. > > #288006: ntop leaks memory > Package: ntop; Reported by: Jerome Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 114 days > old. > > Response: See (2) How much memory can you expect ntop to use on a high traffic network? It is good for me to know what is a valid range. It will be retested on 3.1 as far as I get it working. Thanks for your time. Regards, // Ola > > > -----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 > > -- > --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- > / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | > | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | > | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | > \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Ntop-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev
