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[privoxy-devel] [ ijbswa-Bugs-1122404 ] privoxy dies on /etc/hosts pointing ad servers to 127.0.0.1
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2005-02-14 14:38:32
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Bugs item #1122404, was opened at 2005-02-14 06:28 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nobody You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=111118&aid=1122404&group_id=11118 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: privoxy dies on /etc/hosts pointing ad servers to 127.0.0.1 Initial Comment: I've just installed privoxy 3.0.3 on NetBSD current from the NetBSD pkgsrc system. My browser is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b. When I first installed privoxy, I noticed that it seemed to be exiting quietly every third or fourth request. Nothing was logged -- it just died quietly. I checked to see if this was a known bug, but found nothing. Then, on a hunch, I made a change to my /etc/hosts file. I had a large number of known ad servers listed in my /etc/hosts file, each pointing to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) which does not run a web server. There were 12662 such entries which I got from a list publshed on a website. Once I took those entries out, privoxy began to function correctly. It seems to me that the software likely has a bug such that it will fail on too many refused connections to localhost, or possibly too many refused connections period, or possibly just when those particular server names point to localhost. Regardless of the cause, my experience says that with a large number of ad servers pointed to /etc/hosts, privoxy 3.0.3 will fall over frequently, but without them it will work ok, and this is clearly a bug. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2005-02-14 06:38 Message: Logged In: NO I am the original submitter of this bug -- jw...@pa.... I had trouble getting sourceforge to allow me to submit this non-anymously. Please contact me for information about it - I will be happy to help in debugging attempts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=111118&aid=1122404&group_id=11118 |