can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
hi, recently i have been bitten by a problem which might be already known, but still... quite a few apps (sendmail and ssh among them) seem to always try an query if compiled with ipv6 support, and even if the kernel does not support ipv6, tcpdump shows queries going out to the

Re: can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread Lev Walkin
Luigi Rizzo wrote: hi, recently i have been bitten by a problem which might be already known, but still... quite a few apps (sendmail and ssh among them) seem to always try an query if compiled with ipv6 support, and even if the kernel does not support ipv6, tcpdump shows queries going

Re: Ultra ATA card doesn't seem to provide Ultra speeds.

2003-08-02 Thread Terry Lambert
John-Mark Gurney wrote: Ruben de Groot wrote this message on Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:15 +0200: On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:33:08AM +0200, mh typed: The following comparison is probably bogus, but can anybody explain the huge difference? It's called micro optimization. Linux feels the

Re: [patch] Re: getfsent(3) and spaces in fstab

2003-08-02 Thread Terry Lambert
Simon Barner wrote: The attached patch will allow blanks and tabs for file systems and path names, as long as the are protected by a '\'. For the old fstab style, blanks and tabs are not allowed as delimiters (as it was in the old implementation). You need to add '\\' to the delimited list,

Re: can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread David Malone
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:52:00PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: My understanding is that there are multiple buggy components here: my ISP's nameserver certainly shouldn't behave so badly on requests, and the applications should not bother asking queries when the kernel has no ipv6

Re: can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:59:18AM +0100, David Malone wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:52:00PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: My understanding is that there are multiple buggy components here: my ISP's nameserver certainly shouldn't behave so badly on requests, and the applications should

network crash dumps

2003-08-02 Thread Brian Reichert
I'm messing with a utility for performing network crash dumps: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~anderson/freebsd/netdump/ and have currently applied his instructions (with some mods) to FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. I have two questions: - To test the functionability, I need to invoke a panic. I've

Re: can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread Gregory Neil Shapiro
i know, but what is happening is that all these applications (including sendmail and our ssh, for what matters) are broken in that they look for an record just for making a connection. Can you try this patch for sendmail? --- domain.c.orig Sat Aug 2 09:27:09 2003 +++ domain.c

messing with CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM

2003-08-02 Thread Brian Reichert
I'm exploring the 'local repository' tactics as described in: http://www.scriptkiddie.org/freebsd/setting_up_local_repo.html which makes use of the CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM evironment variable. This is all under 4.7-RELEASE. My general method is: setenv CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM 1000 setenv

Re: messing with CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM

2003-08-02 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2003.08.02 15:35:48 -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: I'm exploring the 'local repository' tactics as described in: http://www.scriptkiddie.org/freebsd/setting_up_local_repo.html [snip] cvs ci src cvs commit: Examining src You are committing on the wrong repository! cvs commit:

Assembly interrupts and Developers handbook

2003-08-02 Thread pat bey
First I would like to know where I can buy a copy of the FreeBSD Developer's Handbook. Nice to have a handbook that I can hold in my hand. Secondly, What can I find a list of other interrupts within FreeBSD like the int 80h. Or is this the only interrupt. Like example interrupt for video

Re: messing with CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM

2003-08-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:49:00PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: On 2003.08.02 15:35:48 -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: I'm exploring the 'local repository' tactics as described in: http://www.scriptkiddie.org/freebsd/setting_up_local_repo.html [snip] cvs ci src cvs commit:

Re: messing with CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM

2003-08-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:04:41PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:49:00PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: The problem is the file CVSROOT/nocommits.sh, which is used as a safeguard in the FreeBSD tree. I replace the file every time I run cvsup with the following

Re: network crash dumps

2003-08-02 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-02 11:56 -0400]: I seem to remember calling panic from ddb actually does something strange. Try call boot(1) or call boot instead. Does anyone have a grasp on an alternate way of panicing a 4.7-R kernel? kill -6 1

Re: Assembly Syscall Question

2003-08-02 Thread Shawn
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 02:59, Terry Lambert wrote: Personally, I like to look at the Linux register-based passing mechanism in the same light that they look at the FreeBSD use of the MMU hardware to assist VM, at the cost of increased FreeBSD VM system complexity (i.e. they think our VM is too

Re: Assembly Syscall Question

2003-08-02 Thread Kip Macy
Maybe, but they also support a lot of MMU-less architectures, so it may have made things simpler for them to not depend on MMU. I wonder if NUMA had any bearing on that as well... No. The initial design of their VM greatly preceded NUMA and uCLinux. It actually makes the system less portable

Re: Assembly Syscall Question

2003-08-02 Thread Shawn
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 16:23, Kip Macy wrote: table layout differs from the default. The introduction to the UVM thesis has some good points in this regard. UVM thesis? (I am subscribed to list.) -- Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://drevil.warpcore.org/

Re: Assembly Syscall Question

2003-08-02 Thread Kip Macy
UVM was the VM system that replaced the old Mach style VM in NetBSD and (I believe) OpenBSD. FreeBSD has already cleaned up a lot of the problems that UVM addresses. However, there are still some things that could be done to make map passing easier, which I believe would make zero-copy support

Re: network crash dumps

2003-08-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 10:11:32PM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: * Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-02 11:56 -0400]: I seem to remember calling panic from ddb actually does something strange. Try call boot(1) or call boot instead. Does anyone have a grasp on an

Re: network crash dumps

2003-08-02 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-02 17:34 -0400]: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 10:11:32PM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: * Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-02 11:56 -0400]: I seem to remember calling panic from ddb actually does something strange. Try call boot(1)

Re: Assembly Syscall Question

2003-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
It's a toss up. Linux's use of registers for syscall args is not a panacea, because many system calls require more then just the basic call-used registers which means the linux userland code has to save and restore those registers on the stack anyway. And we won't even

Re: messing with CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM

2003-08-02 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm exploring the 'local repository' tactics as described in: http://www.scriptkiddie.org/freebsd/setting_up_local_repo.html which makes use of the CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM evironment variable. [...] Any advice? Yes:

Re: Assembly Syscall Question

2003-08-02 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Additionally, the mechanism can : be extended to support chained system calls (i.e. issue several system : calls at once), and transactional sequences. VMS has done this for a long time. :-) All of

Re: Assembly Syscall Question

2003-08-02 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew Dillon wrote: I think the ultimate performance solution is to have some explicitly shared memory between kerneland and userland and store the arguments, error code, and return value there. Being a fairly small package of memory multi-threading would not be an issue as

Re: can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:59:18AM +0100 I heard the voice of David Malone, and lo! it spake thus: A significant number of these are ad servers, so after complaining to Doubleclick and getting no response, I've told my local name server that it is authorititive for doubleclick.net and given