Torsten Landschoff wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:21:03AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, tcpdump crashes on *one* of our machine with
> > segmentation fault (but this isn't related to rpm in any way) --
> > perhaps a problem inside tcpdump itself that needs to be solved
> > somehow...
>
> Do you have more data on this crash? There is a known bug which causes
> libpcap to crash on Linux systems if you specify a local address.
I did some investigations -- yes, machine in question is the only one
that has /etc/ethers file with one line in it. If I remove this file,
tcpdump works fine. I looked to source -- it crashes in libc's nss
stuff trying to resolve all-ones ethernet address. This looks like
glibc bug/issue, tcpdump's side is ok.
> Guy - I think we should pull the fix into 3.6.x and do a new release
> soon.
I'd say that we should contact glibc's maintainers for this instead of
"fixing" in the wrong place.
> Thanks
>
> Torsten
Regards,
Michael.
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