Bug#586999: netcat6 and the z flag

2010-06-28 Thread Sven Trenkel
Hi, I found this bug today, too. I found this bug report only after I had created a patch. but I don't see a patch here so I'll post it anyway. It fixes 3 bugs with the -z flag: 1. "z" is not passed to getopt_long so it's not accepted at all. 2. No "break" after setting "zflag" to true so an int

Bug#535201: Acknowledgement (openvpn: Racecondition can kill OpenVPN tunnels until one side is manually restarted)

2009-06-30 Thread Sven Trenkel
Actually, openvpn doesn't use "read", it uses "recvfrom". And Linux does not keep reporting this error until the socket is closed, but until the next "sendto" to the same host/port. This means that this bug doesn't appear most of the time, just in some situation where openvpn waits for the remote s

Bug#535201: openvpn: Racecondition can kill OpenVPN tunnels until one side is manually restarted

2009-06-30 Thread Sven Trenkel
Package: openvpn Version: 2.1~rc11-1 Severity: important This bug is related to tunnels using UDP as a transport protocol and the "keepalive" option to auto-restart the tunnel on stale connections. If there is a short network outage between the tunnel endpoints and the "keepalive" option is used