[tcpdump-workers] Re: Returned mail: Data format error

2024-11-18 Thread Gerald Combs
On 11/18/24 9:08 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: The message about the spam was in fact spam. But, it forged a valid From: so it got through. I'd like to fix the SPF/DKIM/spam-filter such that it more aggressively kills this kind of forgery, assuming that wireshark.org has the right policies set.

[tcpdump-workers] Re: Returned mail: Data format error

2024-11-18 Thread Francois-Xavier Le Bail via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On 18/11/2024 21:55, Guy Harris wrote: > On Nov 18, 2024, at 9:08 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: > >> The message about the spam was in fact spam. > > So what is the purpose of those types of spam? Testing a list's spam > detectors? The sender may have sent an infected do

[tcpdump-workers] Re: Returned mail: Data format error

2024-11-18 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 18, 2024, at 9:08 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: > The message about the spam was in fact spam. So what is the purpose of those types of spam? Testing a list's spam detectors? ___ tcpdump-workers mailing list -- tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org

[tcpdump-workers] Re: capture and inject device capabilities in libpcap

2024-11-18 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 18, 2024, at 12:15 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: > Denis Ovsienko wrote: >> One complication here is that in some cases libpcap may not be aware of >> a device capability until it gets an error from the OS (as is the case >> with PCAP_ERROR_CAPTURE_NOTSUP in pcap-linux.c), so pcap_findall

[tcpdump-workers] Re: capture and inject device capabilities in libpcap

2024-11-18 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 18, 2024, at 11:54 AM, Denis Ovsienko wrote: > The current approach in libpcap is such that an application at some > point tries to activate a device, and if the device does not support > capturing packets, pcap_activate() fails with the > PCAP_ERROR_CAPTURE_NOTSUP error code. One drawbac

[tcpdump-workers] Re: Returned mail: Data format error

2024-11-18 Thread Michael Richardson
The message about the spam was in fact spam. But, it forged a valid From: so it got through. I'd like to fix the SPF/DKIM/spam-filter such that it more aggressively kills this kind of forgery, assuming that wireshark.org has the right policies set. This kind of thing is fraught with false-positiv

[tcpdump-workers] Re: capture and inject device capabilities in libpcap

2024-11-18 Thread Michael Richardson
Denis Ovsienko wrote: > One complication here is that in some cases libpcap may not be aware of > a device capability until it gets an error from the OS (as is the case > with PCAP_ERROR_CAPTURE_NOTSUP in pcap-linux.c), so pcap_findalldevs() > would not be able to set "this device