Luca's change overnight may also have fixed it - please check.

-----Burton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> Burton M. Strauss III
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:21 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Ntop] New sorting routines in cvs - these are post 3.0pre1
> - TEST NOW OR HOLD YOUR WATER
>
>
> It's an edge case to me - I don't have a pure windows network to test on -
> everything uses tcp/ip.
>
> There's nothing odd about being in any particular state for any amount of
> time: Don't think of it has "hung".
>
> It's perfectly normal, based on what ntop sees.  Remember, it's unlikely
> that ntop will be started just as everything on the network identifies
> itself.  Rather it's going to learn about the more active hosts first and
> the less active only when they send periodic announcements or respond to
> device polls like some router/gateways perform.
>
>
> I adjusted the debug message yesterday so only actual transitions are
> reported, i.e. you won't see the 6->3
> stuff because it never happens.  I'm assuming you didn't update your code
> after that commit?? The time stamp on the ntop-dev message is Mon
> 2/23/2004
> 4:51 PM (US Central Time Zone).
>
> Can you check the generated HTML and see what's in the cell.  With that
> commit, there should now be <!-- --> (HTML comments) showing how ntop
> populated the cell.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -----Burton
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> > Markus Rehbach
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 1:24 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Ntop] New sorting routines in cvs - these are post 3.0pre1
> > - TEST NOW OR HOLD YOUR WATER
> >
> >
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I don't think is is an edge case, because many Windows PC will send
> > those host announcement broadcasts. Here a short extract of the
> debug log:
> >
> > Mon Feb 23 21:59:36 2004  DEBUG_CMPFCTN:
> > lookupHost(192.168.10.11, 00:40:45:21:B3:5A, m0, f0, dev0)
> > Mon Feb 23 21:59:36 2004  DEBUG_CMPFCTN:
> > setResolvedName(0x0831d920) 0  -> 6 192.168.10.11 - hash.c(1140)
> > Mon Feb 23 21:59:36 2004  DEBUG_CMPFCTN:
> > setResolvedName(0x0831d920) 6  -> 3 ETHER - pbuf.c(663)
> > Mon Feb 23 21:59:36 2004  DEBUG_CMPFCTN:
> > setResolvedName(0x0831d920) 6  -> 3 ETHER - util.c(3065)
> >
> > Another host 'hung' in state 6 for a long time and was visible in
> > the tables as <IP-Address>.
> > Having sent the SMB BROWSER host announcement resulted in another
> > empty table entry.
> >
> > Hope it is helpful
> >
> > Markus
> >
> > P.S.: 2nd try, don't know why....
> >
> > ________________________
> >
> >
> > On Monday 23 February 2004 21:24, Burton M. Strauss III wrote:
> > > Need to figure out what those entries are, so we can adjust the
> > edge case.
> > >
> > > add
> > >
> > > #define DEBUG_CMPFCTN
> > >
> > > in globals-defines.h or ntop.h
> > >
> > > Then
> > >
> > > 1) check the log for the DEBUG_CMPFCTN: messages
> > >    - DEBUG_CMPFCTN: lookupHost shows calls to lookupHost()
> > >    - DEBUG_CMPFCTN: setResolvedName shows the pattern of name
> resolution
> > >
> > >  (note, there's another message in util.c around 5816, that shows the
> > > compares - you might want to delete those lines
> > > to keep the noise down).
> > >
> > >
> > > 2) look at the generated html code - there may be some <!-- -->
> > comments (I
> > > probably need to add more of these)
> > >
> > > -----Burton
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> > > > Markus Rehbach
> > > > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:24 AM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Re: [Ntop] New sorting routines in cvs - these are
> > post 3.0pre1
> > > > - TEST NOW OR HOLD YOUR WATER
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Burton,
> > > >
> > > > all Systems in the network which are broadcasting names via the
> > > > SMB BROWSER
> > > > Protocol (without having a reverse lookup entry in dns) were
> > > > shown in 3pre1
> > > > by name. But now there is an blank entry in the list, no
> name nor the
> > > > IP-Address.
> > > >
> > > > Tried it using the -n Parameter. My 'server' is running samba and is
> > > > broadcasting its name.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > >
> > > > Markus
> >
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