Hello

On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:26:05PM -0500, Burton Strauss wrote:
> Nice to see you back!

Thanks!

> I could suggest people follow our procedures and report them to the ntop /
> ntop-dev list, vs. maintaining a separate system of 3 year old bug reports.

:D

> But, here's some rough thoughts:
> 
> (1) Anything reported against 2.x and (especially vague ones like #179751)
> should be closed.  Anything to do with seg faults and memory needs to be
> retested against the 3.1 release.  This is esp. true of memory bugs reported
> against 2.x (we no longer resize hashes, so all of that code has been
> reworked).  I routinely run under valgrind and fix anything I find.

Ok.

> (2) Memory problems need to be run under gdb/valgrind so we get accurate
> reports, not vague ones.  Especially informationless ones.

Ok.

> So that leaves us with:
> 
> #249878: ntop: insecure default config, leaks possibly sensitive information
> 
> Package: ntop; Reported by: Marek Michalkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 340
> days old. 
> 
> Suggestion: Read privacynotice.html page (available through the web
> interface, About | What is ntop) 
> 
> 
> #250217: ntop: sometimes shows parts of host names 
> Package: ntop; Reported by: Marek Michalkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 338
> days old. 
> 
> Response: There were a lot of fixes in this area in 3.1 and so it needs to
> be retested first.  Make sure you delete the dns cache .db file so as not to
> perpetuate corrupted data.  If this is still a problem, I'd like to see a
> packet capture and the counts from the info.html page to ascertain whether
> ntop is getting the bad data from DNS sniffing.

I'll try to make 3.1 work so it can be retested.

> 
> #260030: ntop packet dump has bad header 
> Package: ntop; Reported by: "David M. Dowdle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> 280 days old. 
> 
> Response: Known problem - don't know why it's happening - it looks like the
> packet header is overflowing (negative?) but this needs a patched version of
> libpcap to debug (the tcpdump message is just a pass through from libpcap,
> which doesn't identify the cause).

Ok.

> 
> #269882: ntop: Can't get web pages (gzflush error -2) 
> Package: ntop; Reported by: Alberto Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tags:
> moreinfo, unreproducible; 232 days old. 
> 
> Response: Retest.  This happens when memory chains are corrupted - libz is
> just much more sensitive to it than anyone else.  I thought all cases had
> been fixed in  3.1 - there haven't been any reports of this problem
> re-occuring.

Again I'll try to make 3.1 work.

> 
> #288006: ntop leaks memory 
> Package: ntop; Reported by: Jerome Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 114 days
> old. 
> 
> Response: See (2)

How much memory can you expect ntop to use on a high traffic network?
It is good for me to know what is a valid range. It will be retested on
3.1 as far as I get it working.

Thanks for your time.

Regards,

// Ola

> 
> 
> -----Burton
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Ola Lundqvist
> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 2:30 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Ntop-dev] Debian bugs.
> 
> Hello
> 
> I have now got some more free time to spend on Debian packaging and
> therefore I'm trying to resolve the ones with "normal" severity and not just
> the important and serious ones.
> 
> Therefore I'm asking you all for advice on a number of Debian bugs.
> The list is available on: http://bugs.debian.org/ntop
> 
> If you could help me to determine if some of them are fixed or how it can be
> fixed it would be really great.
> 
> Ignore #238500 and #295846 as they are packaging related. All others are
> general ntop problems.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> // Ola
> 
> --
>  --------------------- Ola Lundqvist ---------------------------
> /  [EMAIL PROTECTED]                     Annebergsslingan 37      \
> |  [EMAIL PROTECTED]                 654 65 KARLSTAD          |
> |  +46 (0)54-10 14 30                  +46 (0)70-332 1551       |
> |  http://www.opal.dhs.org             UIN/icq: 4912500         |
> \  gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36  4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 /
>  ---------------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Ntop-dev mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev
> 
> 

-- 
 --------------------- Ola Lundqvist ---------------------------
/  [EMAIL PROTECTED]                     Annebergsslingan 37      \
|  [EMAIL PROTECTED]                 654 65 KARLSTAD          |
|  +46 (0)54-10 14 30                  +46 (0)70-332 1551       |
|  http://www.opal.dhs.org             UIN/icq: 4912500         |
\  gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36  4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 /
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Ntop-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev

Reply via email to