From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Juergen Kreileder Subject: Re: ipt_recent needs a maintainer! Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:21:27 +0100 Message-ID: <439DBFA7.7000506@blackdown.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Hi, > ipt_recent was merged into the mainline kernel quite some time ago, but > unfortunately the original author doesn't seem to be compelled to > maintain it. There's nothing wrong with that, after all we do this > voluntarily! But we have to deal with the consequences. > > Some people from the netfilter community have indicated that it's coding > style rectifies a re-write, but that's something I don't want to address > now. > > What we need as a short-term solution is somebody maintaining this > beast, somebody looking into bug reports, etc. I'm using ipt_recent, so I'm interested in keeping it in shape. I'm familiar with the code and its current issues (see http://blog.blackdown.de/2005/05/09/fixing-the-ipt_recent-netfilter-module/) So I'd like to volunteer for maintaining it. > There are a number of bug reports coming in, and nobody really takes > care of them. The latest one seems to be > https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=415 This is exactly the bug described on my site. > but there are more, like > https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=369 That bug is fixed since 2.6.12. The code in earlier kernels wasn't 64-bit safe. Juergen -- Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team http://blog.blackdown.de/