Bug#755501: ircd-ratbox resolver daemon hits 100% cpu on irc client connect, fails to resolve hostname.

2014-07-21 Thread Michiel Holtkamp
Package: ircd-ratbox Version: 3.0.8.dfsg-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, After upgrading to 3.0.8-dfsg-2, I noticed connecting to the IRC server was very slow and resulted in hostnames not being (reverse) resolved. Upon inspection, it seemed that the ircd resolver daemon was using a lot

Bug#755501: ircd-ratbox resolver daemon hits 100% cpu on irc client connect, fails to resolve hostname.

2014-07-21 Thread Marc Dequènes (Duck)
Coin, Quoting Michiel Holtkamp deb...@elfstone.nl: rb_get_pseudo_random(0x7fffa62abc86, 2, 0x7f583268fba0, 0) = 1 I did a quick check in the source code and it seemed that this function was called in a tight loop if the random number that was returned is always 0x (a 16-bit short was