Luca,

We were seeing this problem on a large network (1900 hosts) registered on
the DNS.  Just another fact for the record.  I did delete the db's at one
point and the sytsem stayed stable for a while.  I couldn't isolate it to
the dnscache.  But it was definitely segfault-ing.

Walt

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Luca Deri <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all
> I see that this issue is heavily discussed. I admit that i have not
> followed too much this issue. Basically the problem is that the
> temporary DB that holds the list of hosts to be resolved gets
> corrupted, correct? Do you have a simple way to reproduce this problem?
>
> thanks Luca
>
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:41 PM, Terry Martin wrote:
>
> > Gary
> >
> > Yes I do understand that it is open source and I don't expect it to
> > be perfect.
> >
> > I am going to have one of my programmers see what they can do.
> >
> >
> >
> > Terry Martin
> > TimeData Corporation
> > VP of Network Operation
> > West Coast Number     503-678-2224
> > Cell:                            503-318-8909
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> > Of Gary Gatten
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 1:52 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Ntop] NTOP is crashing - dnscache.db corruption
> >
> > It is opensource after all, so I'm sure someone could dig into it and
> > find out why it's breaking.  If I knew C better I'd give it a shot,
> > but
> > it would take me 100 times longer than someone C literate, so I'm
> > passing on this one!
> >
> > Some months ago someone was having the problem often and was
> > supposed to
> > provide a copy of a bad db file to Luca and/or Burton.  I don't know
> > the
> > status of that.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> > Of
> > Ian McDonald
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 2:54 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Ntop] NTOP is crashing
> >
> > Terry Martin wrote:
> >> Gary
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It was 170 MB.  If I disable lookups then I can't resolve IP
> > addresses.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Boy I would like to find fix for this.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > You and the rest of us.
> >
> > --
> > ian
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