hi, i can reproduce this bug here (with siege running in default configuration, arch is amd64):
1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ siege -g www.blafoo.de Segmentation fault [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.blafoo.de www.blafoo.de A 82.165.99.117 2) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ siege -g www.blafo.de [done] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.blafo.de www.blafo.de does not exist, try again and finally im able to produce this one: 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ siege -g www.hisee.de *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x000000000051630c *** Aborted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.hisee.de www.hisee.de does not exist, try again for at least 3) there seems to be a rough "fix" like: --- src/url.c 2005-12-08 15:49:48.000000000 +0100 +++ /home/abi/siege/siege-2.65/src/url.c 2006-09-08 12:33:45.000000000 +0200 @@ -361,7 +361,6 @@ (U->protocol==HTTP)?"http://":"https://", U->hostname, U->port, U->pathname ); - xfree(tmp); return(U); } siege then keeps segfaulting in another way: Lifting the server siege...[New Thread 1098918240 (LWP 5827)] [..] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 1082132832 (LWP 5825)] 0x00000000004073bd in http_read_headers (C=0x518c90, host=0x516270 "sbytra105.by.aok.de") at http.c:301 301 line[x] = c; bye, - michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]