This release fixes a couple bugs in preparation for the Debian freeze. I've also finally gotten around to writing a man page! Bug reports are appreciated. ...
Brad M. Garcia
bgarcia@...
Nov 4, 1999 1:04 pm
74
... I see, but wouldn't it be better to check for "nobody" first and use 65534 only if that lookup fails? Thomas -- DSA/B0FA4F49;ElG/C631AF6E:FA38 2D7E 408F...
Thomas Schoepf
schoepf@...
Nov 8, 1999 3:13 pm
75
... My preference would be to use nobody by default, and to abort if that user can't be found. A command-line option could be provided to allow the user to...
Matthew Kirkwood
weejock@...
Nov 8, 1999 3:34 pm
76
... I changed it based on a suggestion made by Wolfgang on this list a while back. I have no problem changing it back to "nobody" if everyone believes that is...
Brad M. Garcia
bgarcia@...
Nov 10, 1999 1:18 am
77
Hello, ... I think the whole thing depends on the point of view. If the primary goal would be to become `nobody' the use of -1 and -2 for uid and gid would be...
Wolfgang Zekoll
wzk@...
Nov 10, 1999 6:25 am
78
... Two things: 1. A system that uses -1 as the uid for nobody is badly broken. -1 will be interpreted as an error return value by setuid and be ignored => the...
Thomas Schoepf
schoepf@...
Nov 10, 1999 2:08 pm
79
... Not exactly. setuid is declared as: int setuid(uid_t uid); where ((uid_t)-1) is not ((int)-1). ... My personal preference is to run such programs under...
Matthew Kirkwood
weejock@...
Nov 10, 1999 6:13 pm
80
... Maybe it wasn't setuid() or perhaps it's smarter nowadays but I still remember those security advisories a few years ago about system with nobody's uid...
Thomas Schoepf
schoepf@...
Nov 10, 1999 7:59 pm
81
... Here's a patch to fix the problem: diff -u -r dnrd-2.5/src/master.c dnrd-2.6/src/master.c ... +++ dnrd-2.6/src/master.c Thu Nov 11 09:25:47 1999 @@ -273,10...
Brad M. Garcia
bgarcia@...
Nov 11, 1999 2:26 pm
82
... Works excatly as I hoped it would, thanks. Would be great if it were a command line option in future versions. (or if this is how it should be, I did...
Russell Dill
Russell.Dill@...
Nov 12, 1999 1:45 am
83
In version 2.4 I put in a change where dnrd would do a chdir() and chroot(), placing it in the /etc/dnrd directory. This was done as a security measure - if a...
Brad M. Garcia
bgarcia@...
Nov 28, 1999 2:44 pm
84
... I've tried to talk a friend of mine into doing a quick audit, by the way. (He's fairly good at these things - witness the RH5.1 errata list.) ... They're...
Matthew Kirkwood
weejock@...
Nov 29, 1999 8:43 am
85
... That would be great. I know there are some potential buffer overflows in there. If I find some time I'll fix some of them. ... Currently you can send it...
Brad M. Garcia
bgarcia@...
Nov 29, 1999 5:38 pm
86
Minor release. Here are the changes: - Switch to uid & gid to "nobody" by default (revert of v2.4 change). - Fixed bug where names in /etc/hosts without a "."...
Brad M. Garcia
bgarcia@...
Dec 4, 1999 12:45 am
87
I tried using DNRD with Masqdialer however it doesn't work when I connect from a remote mdialer client. I setup the mserver.conf like it was written in the...
funkknight@...
Dec 5, 1999 2:46 am
88
... I don't use Masqdialer anymore so I haven't been testing this configuration. If you have the time, try older versions. I was still using Masqdialer back...
Brad M. Garcia
bgarcia@...
Dec 5, 1999 11:40 am
89
Here's the first indication of a (very) unsatisfied customer. ... almost unusable Konstantin - December 07th 1999, 21:45 EST Here is some annoying 'features' ...
Brad M. Garcia
bgarcia@...
Dec 8, 1999 6:16 pm
90
... Sounds like a design decision to me. Though maybe worth revisiting if the servers can now be specified in the config file. ... FWIW, I _like_ this. The...
Matthew Kirkwood
weejock@...
Dec 11, 1999 7:13 pm
91
Windows 98SE will pick up names from the hosts file for reverse lookup, but not under normal lookup using dnrd2.6....... I am using single word hostname (no...
russ
russell.dill@...
Dec 28, 1999 8:57 pm
92
... Indeed, this is also how Unix machines work. The difference is that if no match is found, unix will also search for the name without a suffix added. ... ...
Brad M. Garcia
bgarcia@...
Dec 29, 1999 1:00 am
93
I am using a Linux-Box as a internet-gateway for a few Windows-boxes. I start dnrd in a boot-script, so that it reads /etc/hosts to resolve the local net and...
Jörg Wesely
jwesely@...
Dec 29, 1999 1:50 pm
94
... +++ dns.c.new Wed Dec 29 09:39:48 1999 @@ -327,11 +327,7 @@ y->name[k-1] = '\0'; } - for (i=0; (c = y->name[i]) != 0; i++) { - if (isupper(c)) {...
Brad M. Garcia
bgarcia@...
Dec 29, 1999 2:34 pm
95
Before this will compile, you'll also need to remove the now-unused variables i and c from the function. ... Brad Garcia Support a good service - visit...
Brad M. Garcia
bgarcia@...
Dec 29, 1999 2:41 pm
96
yes, it works great! Thank you for the fast help! bye Joerg...
Jörg Wesely
jwesely@...
Dec 29, 1999 9:57 pm
97
I can't get dnrd to work. It seemed to work at first but now it says: "isock: couldn't bind local address". There is actually a dnrd daemon running, with the...
Anthony Campbell
a.campbell@...
Jan 2, 2000 11:02 am
98
... I thought it was only me with that problem 8*) - Anyway, dnrd -k doesn't always kill the daemon it appears; usually I use the next lines in my ip-up ...
Eric van Gorkom
ericg@...
Jan 2, 2000 11:09 am
99
... Thanks for this suggestion. It works, but I think it's better for me to put the commands in the logoff script because I've found that Netscape sometimes...
Anthony Campbell
a.campbell@...
Jan 2, 2000 3:03 pm
100
... As a matter of fact, it is also in my ip-down script; it then just starts dnrd as a "standalone" DNS for my network, so without the -s stuff... The idea is...
Eric van Gorkom
ericg@...
Jan 2, 2000 3:11 pm
101
Folks, I am hoping that somebody can help me solve a problem that I have with dnrd. I love dnrd. It does exactly what I need, and does it well (with one...
Ian Callahan
igc@...
Jan 5, 2000 9:48 am
102
... I'm not sure what the problem is. This works for me, but there are many other people having the same problem (usually in conjunction with mserver). I...
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