Re: smal bug in icmpinfo

[lafferty () POBOX COM (Rich Lafferty)]

Quoting Adrian Dabrowski (atrox () TELEWEB AT) 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

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