Re: [boinc_dev] Interesting possible LIBCURL bug?

2009-08-06 Thread Martin
Martin wrote: Martin wrote: Lynn W. Taylor wrote: This is actually pretty encouraging, because it looks like you have a repeatable test case. I've just done a search on my logs spanning back to Nov 2008 for 13.240.68.208, and nothing found. Or do I need to enable http_debug? Where? (If

Re: [boinc_dev] Interesting possible LIBCURL bug?

2009-07-21 Thread Martin
Lynn W. Taylor wrote: This is actually pretty encouraging, because it looks like you have a repeatable test case. Very curious indeed... I've just done a search on my logs spanning back to Nov 2008 for 13.240.68.208, and nothing found. Or do I need to enable http_debug? Where? (If you want

Re: [boinc_dev] Interesting possible LIBCURL bug?

2009-07-21 Thread Martin
Martin wrote: Lynn W. Taylor wrote: This is actually pretty encouraging, because it looks like you have a repeatable test case. Very curious indeed... I've just done a search on my logs spanning back to Nov 2008 for 13.240.68.208, and nothing found. Or do I need to enable

Re: [boinc_dev] Interesting possible LIBCURL bug?

2009-07-19 Thread Lynn W. Taylor
It's an interesting thought, but you're missing the main point. LIBCURL was told to connect to boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu, and it says it tried to connect to a host at XEROX Corporation. I can't think of a single way for that to happen, short of a bug. Since web browsers, mail clients, telnet,

Re: [boinc_dev] Interesting possible LIBCURL bug?

2009-07-19 Thread Richard Haselgrove
I didn't persue it last time, because I was using an old version of BOINC, and saw no reason to upgrade at the time - this was 2008 BC (before CUDA). I did ask if anyone could confirm my observation with a current BOINC, but answer came there none. I am, however, glad that I posted on a

Re: [boinc_dev] Interesting possible LIBCURL bug?

2009-07-19 Thread Lynn W. Taylor
This is actually pretty encouraging, because it looks like you have a repeatable test case. Your DSL router is acting as a proxy for DNS, or actually running a resolver (I'll bet it's a stub resolver) which has advantages and disadvantages. If you see the odd IP, and you immediately ping the

[boinc_dev] Interesting possible LIBCURL bug?

2009-07-18 Thread Lynn W. Taylor
Richard Haselgrove spotted something interesting a while back, and since I've been reading code and documentation trying to come up to speed, it's pretty interesting. What he saw is here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=3225 At the time, boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu resolved to

Re: [boinc_dev] Interesting possible LIBCURL bug?

2009-07-18 Thread Al Reust
I am going to pick out one element of this... It stands out IF the DNS administrator has set reverse lookups, then if the user does something silly on the windows side like ipconfig /displaydns they would get the appropriate record for 13.240.68.208.in-addr.arpa Which would point to the