[Chilli] chilli malformed DNS

[David Bird]

Is chilli crashing right after these log entries? What version are you
running? If not current (or even better, a recent 1.3.0-svn from
subversion), can you upgrade easily?

David

On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 15:44 -0500, Nestor A Diaz wrote:
> Hi Guys. ( i have already post this on the website forum)
> 
> I have a couple of servers running coova chilli and they all run fine.
> 
> However people reports that sometimes the coova chilli turns 
> unresponsive, i run chilli with debug option as follows:
> 
> /usr/sbin/chilli -c /etc/chilli.conf --debug
> 
> and after some days or hours chilli keeps logging the following to the 
> syslog forever:
> 
> Aug 24 11:17:07 panorama coova-chilli[28483]: dhcp.c: 230: Layer2 appconn
> Aug 24 11:17:07 panorama coova-chilli[28483]: dns.c: 73: bad value 7/1494/6
> Aug 24 11:17:07 panorama coova-chilli[28483]: dns.c: 155: failed parsing 
> DNS packet
> Aug 24 11:17:07 panorama coova-chilli[28483]: dhcp.c: 1619: dropping 
> malformed DNS
> Aug 24 11:17:07 panorama coova-chilli[28483]: dhcp.c: 1978: dhcp_dns()
> 
> I am not sure what triggers this behavior, i will have to set up a 
> fail2ban script to monitor this on syslog and then restart coova chilli 
> when it happens, but before that i will like to report this behavior and 
> read your comments on that, as i think that could be probably a bug in 
> coova chilli.
> 
> Slds.
>