Bug#355795: Withdraw bug report (but perhaps put warning in man page/help)

2006-03-07 Thread Dave E Martin
Well, it appears I jumped the gun a bit and I apologize. It appears certain devices in our network are sending malformed responses to the ping requests (which linux appears to care about, but some other OSes apparently don't), even though the replies are showing up in ethereal, they have the wr

Bug#355795: Withdraw bug report (but perhaps add warning to man page/help)

2006-03-07 Thread Dave E Martin
It appears that I've jumped the gun a bit and I apologize. It appears certain devices (more than one, and a suspected particular brand/model#) in our network send malformed responses to some ping requests, and apparently linux cares about this, while some other OSes don't, hence making it look

Bug#355795: iputils-ping: fails even though host is reachable

2006-03-07 Thread Dave E Martin
Package: iputils-ping Version: 3:20020927-3 Severity: important I suppose this might really be a kernel bug, but I don't know for sure (2.6.15); if it is a kernel bug, it might be nice (if possible, the strace below seems to say so) if ping could notice and report some sort of error, instead of

Bug#321462: exim4-config: Issue a warning if CFILEMODE allows world-read and config file has any hide options

2005-08-05 Thread Dave E Martin
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.44-2 Severity: wishlist A warning should be issued if the configuration contains sensitive information and CFILEMODE allows world-read (and some option isn't suppressing the warning); such as the presence of any exim options prefixed with "hide", or perhaps even j