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Date:      Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:51:08 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." <bsder@allcaps.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bug filing broken?
Message-ID:  <20030714055108.GA13928@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307131515490.1646-100000@mail.allcaps.org>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307131515490.1646-100000@mail.allcaps.org>

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On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:40:21PM -0700, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote:
> I tried to file a bug for one of my -CURRENT machines using send-pr and=
=20
> got the following result back:
>=20
> >   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> ><FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>
> >    (reason: 450 <taz.allcaps.org.>: Helo command rejected: Host not fou=
nd)
>=20
> Presumably this means that the mailer is trying to reverse lookup my=20
> hostname, and it doesn't exist.  That's true, as I have been experimentin=
g=20
> with this stuff behind my firewall on my private net.
>=20
> Fine.  I'll file a bug via the web interface.
>=20
> Go to:
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html
>=20
> >The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.
>=20
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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 tha=
t=20
> it accepts all input and rejects based upon content.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> The alternative is to reopen the web form.  However, I find send-pr much=
=20
> more useful (less cutting and pasting).
>=20
> Submitting a bug report should be the easiest, most robust and error free
> task the system carries out.

We await your patches :)

Kris
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