Quoting Adrian Dabrowski (atroxat_private) from Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 10:18:15PM +0200: > There is a smal bug in icmpinfo (by Laurent Demailly; available from > sunsite): > > whenever it writes an entry to a log, it first tries to resolve the name.. > but if the name-resolve returns an eg. icmp_xxx_unreachable.. than it will > perform an name-resolve for that again .. and again .. and again.. > > this will become a nice logfile-size... > > bye. adrian. I'm not sure I'd call that a bug. Icmpinfo logs ICMP; if you tell it to log at a certain verbosity, then it will. From its manpage: -n Avoid name queries - just give IP addresses. (use this option when running unattended on name server hosts (to avoid possible looping)) Also, from the README: IMPORTANT NOTE : *If* you machine is running a named (is a name server) you MUST USE -n when leaving icmpinfo unattended, to avoid some possible looping, when icmpinfo tries to resolve an ip in an unreachable domain. [this problem of domain generated icmps has been worked upon... but I found no satisfary solutions, suggestions welcome, maybe a solution for v1.12 !] If you choose to disregard the info in the documentation, then you experience unexpected behaviour. -Rich -- Rich Lafferty --------------------------------------------------------- IITS/Computing Services | "How should I know if it works? That's what Concordia University | beta testers are for. I only coded it" -LT richat_private ----------------------------------------[McQ]--
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