Re: What *should* Net-SNMP do with a busted resource?

2007-03-08 Thread Phil Smith III
Peter Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Having experienced similar failures over the years,(with my own agent >code as well - blush), I would say, the agent should be designed to be >robust in the face of badly behaved or wrongly configured systems. After >all, typing 'cat xyz' does not crash t

What *should* Net-SNMP do with a busted resource?

2007-03-06 Thread Phil Smith III
We had a customer for whom net-snmp 5.2.2 was "broken" -- it would start, but as soon as anything tried to fetch the Host MIB, it would stop responding. After far too much hassle, we figured out that they had a busted cups install: any attempt to touch the sole defined cups printer would hang,