Re: [AMaViS-user] Why p0f-analyzer.pl?

2007-03-07 Thread Mark Martinec
Giampaolo, > Ok. I could try to cope with this by retrieving a "valid field" mask along > with the response: fields marked "valid" carry values shared by all matches > of the query, while the "not valid" ones are left undefined. The actual > implementation of the "p0f -0" queries would simply retu

Re: [AMaViS-user] Why p0f-analyzer.pl?

2007-03-07 Thread Mark Martinec
Giampaolo, > > I know, and that is quite unfortunate, as we are missing p0f info > > on mail that arrives over IPv6 > > Mmmh... I see. Unfortunately, I guess there are some difficulties in > designing a "stable" IPv4+6 query protocol: apart different address sizes, > there are too many further

Re: [AMaViS-user] Why p0f-analyzer.pl?

2007-03-07 Thread Mark Martinec
Giampaolo, > 1) it could consume even less cpu and memory; > 2) using a pipe to vector data to the p0f-analyzer.pl is an ugly technique [...] I have nothing against extending p0f to satisfy queries with missing port numbers, actually I'm very happy someone decided to do this eventually. Writing

Re: [AMaViS-user] Why p0f-analyzer.pl?

2007-03-07 Thread Mark Martinec
Giampaolo and others, > This in native C-language, which often means reduced size and > increased performance with respect to perl's p0f-analyzer.pl. That's a poor excuse. Our p0f-analyzer.pl consumes about 18 CPU seconds per day, and responses to queries are instantaneous. > I'm working on a ud

Re: [AMaViS-user] Why p0f-analyzer.pl? (AMaViS-user Digest, Vol 11, Issue 8)

2007-03-07 Thread Claude Frantz
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > I have made SpamAssassin plugin to query a local stream socket when run > p0f with -Q option. > > The limitation is that SA and Amavisd-new has to > run on MX server because the socket can only listen on local socket > stream, not like p0f-an

Re: [AMaViS-user] Why p0f-analyzer.pl?

2007-03-06 Thread Vincent Li
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vincent >> >> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: >> >>> Why does the p0f-analyzer.pl script exists? >>> >>> I see that the p0f tool is capable of caching a specified >> amo

Re: [AMaViS-user] Why p0f-analyzer.pl?

2007-02-15 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vincent > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > > > Why does the p0f-analyzer.pl script exists? > > > > I see that the p0f tool is capable of caching a specified > amount of request, and then reply to queries issues thro

[AMaViS-user] Why p0f-analyzer.pl?

2007-01-25 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Why does the p0f-analyzer.pl script exists? I see that the p0f tool is capable of caching a specified amount of request, and then reply to queries issues through a unix socket. This in native C-language, which often means reduced size and increased performance with respect to perl's p0f-analyze