> 
> I just found one reason for FPs in the Botnet plugin. It 
> doesn't make a difference between timeouts (and other DNS 
> errors) and negative answers. So if your DNS server/proxy is 
> overloaded (or slow for some other reason), you'll get FPs
> 
> Since 15 minutes ago, I'm running a slightly modified version 
> of the plugin that tries to avoid this. In a while I'll send 
> a patch to the author.
> 
> Apart from this the plugin seems to work fine here with a 
> score of +2 (with an extra +1 if p0f says it's a Windows system).
> 
> Regards
> /Jonas
> 
> --
> Jonas Eckerman, FSDB & Fruktträdet

Jonas,

please send the patch to the list too.... whether or not the author does
anything with it is his business, and then eventually ours.

:-)

it will benefit a lot of people that will choose to use your idea or patch
regardless.

thanks!

 - rh

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