From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 22:51:10 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 8C51137B401 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:51:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0FA143F3F for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:51:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7415266B04; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 76E78B36; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:51:08 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." Message-ID: <20030714055108.GA13928@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 05:51:10 -0000 --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 ----- > > > > (reason: 450 : 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 --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/EkTMWry0BWjoQKURAtYJAKDLsmOaMEw4Fa4yR0eg+ZE7XPUzlgCg1chd N/iL6MvTYgMeNq926sAg6o8= =MLdR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G--