On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Matthew Frost wrote:
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0 0x371c8 in host_scan_for_local_hosts ()
> Configured local interface address is 127.0.0.1
> Segmentation fault
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Lutz Pressler wrote:
> The daemon silently quits (yielding "connection closed" on the
> initiating side) if it gets an SMTP connect from a system with incorrectly
> configured DNS. In detail:
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Peter Bowyer wrote:
> I've not tracked it down properly yet - but I'm getting reports of
> 'Connection reset by peer' from sites trying to send us mail since we
> upgraded from 2.01 to 2.04 last week.
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Matthew Frost wrote:
> Your workaround described above explains why I don't see this
> behaviour on certain machines (they never do lookups as you say)...
And that's why I haven't seen the problem here...
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Malcolm Ray wrote:
> Right. The problem lies in host_find_byaddr(). host_find_byname()
> assumes that the 'address' field of its first arg will be NULL, but
> host_find_byaddr() forgets to clear it. Suggested but totally
> unofficial patch attached.
These all appear to be the same problem. My thanks to Malcolm for
chasing it down. The suggested patch (below, in case anyone missed it)
is fine. I will include it in a 2.05 release shortly, since it really
needs to be fixed asap.
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*** exim-2.04/src/host.c.dist Fri Oct 2 18:23:39 1998
--- exim-2.04/src/host.c Fri Oct 2 18:24:05 1998
***************
*** 1090,1095 ****
--- 1090,1096 ----
happened to own a reverse zone could set it to point to any names at all. */
h.name = yield;
+ h.address = NULL;
h.next = NULL;
if (host_find_byname(&h, NULL, FALSE) == HOST_FIND_FAILED)
--
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