On Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:43:45 +0200, Klemens Nanni <[email protected]> wrote: > > DESCR: > > Bing is a point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool (hence the 'b'), > based on ping. Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available > or average) throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests > roundtrip times for different packet sizes for each end of the link. > > No HOMEPAGE, https://repology.org/project/bing/versions says our 1.0.5 is > behind 1.3.5, > distfile is mirrored and even that I can't fetch. > > Logs explain setuid need like this, but I can't verify as sources are > unavailble to me: > > revision 1.13 > date: 2002/09/17 09:06:23; author: pvalchev; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2; > This is installed setuid root because it uses SOCK_RAW, so open socket > as early as possible and revoke privileges immediately after > bump PKGNAME to reflect chang > > > I might be holding this wrong, but it dies on startup trying to print > something: > > bing 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 > > 33654 bing PSIG SIGSEGV SIG_DFL code=SEGV_MAPERR addr=0xeafc5850 > trapno=6 > 33654 bing NAMI "/var/crash/bing/33654.core" > > Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > #0 strlen () at /usr/src/lib/libc/arch/amd64/string/strlen.S:125 > 125 movq (%rax),%rdx /* get bytes to check */ > (gdb) bt > #0 strlen () at /usr/src/lib/libc/arch/amd64/string/strlen.S:125 > #1 0x00000d47eaf97881 in __vfprintf (fp=0xd47eafbe810 <__stdout>, > fmt0=0xd455d4ce119 "BING\t%s (%s) and ", ap=0x7ac123902ad0) > at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdio/vfprintf.c:887 > #2 0x00000d47eaf94f04 in _libc_vfprintf (fp=0xd47eafbe810 <__stdout>, > fmt0=<optimized out>, > ap=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdio/vfprintf.c:275 > #3 0x00000d47eaf43330 in _libc_printf (fmt=0x0) at > /usr/src/lib/libc/stdio/printf.c:44 > #4 0x00000d455d4d3260 in main () > > > OK to remove? >
I found their actual homepage: http://fgouget.free.fr/bing/index-en.shtml Which file should I download ? There are two versions of the source. The version 1.0.4 is the latest stable official release which was developped by Pierre Beyssac but it only runs on Unix. The version 1.1.3 is a derived development release which I ported to Wind32 platforms. Eventhough this is a developpement release I think it is stable enough to be used instead of the 1.0.4 release. For the users of the 1.1.2 release on Win32 I really recommend the upgrade to this 1.1.3 release as I greatly improved the precision of the RTT measurements. ... Bing 1.3 is supposed to be a reimplementation from scratch of bing but for now it just a bunch of code thrown together and you can consider yourself lucky it it goes as far as compiling. Nethertheless you are welcome to take it and hack it. I hadn't got version 1.0.5, but here historical homepage with version 1.0.5: https://web.archive.org/web/20050901062003/http://www.freenix.fr/freenix/logiciels/bing.html All of that makes removal of this sane. OK kirill@ to remove. -- wbr, Kirill
