From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 15:40:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 722C937B401 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.allcaps.org (allcaps.org [216.240.173.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC71443FDD for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:40:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsder@allcaps.org) Received: from mail.allcaps.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.allcaps.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 884A192FAF for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 18:40:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (bsder@localhost)h6DMeLDv001755 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:40:21 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: mail.allcaps.org: bsder owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:40:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Bug filing broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:40:20 -0000 I tried to file a bug for one of my -CURRENT machines using send-pr and got the following result back: > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > (reason: 450 : Helo command rejected: Host not found) Presumably this means that the mailer is trying to reverse lookup my hostname, and it doesn't exist. That's true, as I have been experimenting with this stuff behind my firewall on my private net. Fine. I'll file a bug via the web interface. Go to: http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html >The web-based bug interface is currently disabled. This is annoying. A user is already peeved that FreeBSD has a bug, and now the bug sending mechanism has a bug. In addition, the web bug submission is offline. The send to FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org should not have failed in the first place. Even if FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org needs spam protection, all of the emails coming into it have a signature which makes spam analysis incredibly easy. Please reopen FreeBSD-gnats-submit so that it accepts all input and rejects based upon content. Another idea is to rewrite send-pr so that it submits bug reports directly to a port on a server somewhere. Using port 80 and a dedicated receive server would get around firewalling issues. The alternative is to reopen the web form. However, I find send-pr much more useful (less cutting and pasting). Submitting a bug report should be the easiest, most robust and error free task the system carries out. Thanks, -a