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From: Greg Lindahl <greg@blekko.com>
To: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Treason uncloaked / Broken peer again
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:30:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090226063045.GD5501@bx9.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0902212317410.20526@wrl-59.cs.helsinki.fi>

> > A recent set of fiddling to our web crawler has resulted in crawled
> > Linux hosts frequently getting "Treason uncloaked" messages in their
> > dmesg. This has resulted in a modest amount of hate mail, surprisingly
> > little given that we crawl millions of hosts per day.

I'm continuing to get hate mail from all over the planet. Can anyone
recommend a webpage which I could point to that explains how harmless
this message can be? Google returns lots of scary warnings. I would
write one myself but the complainers are already dubious of me.

It seems that most complainers are running < 2.6.14, which had a
header prediction bug.

-- greg


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-26  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-21 19:58 Treason uncloaked / Broken peer again Greg Lindahl
2009-02-21 21:34 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-02-21 21:50   ` Greg Lindahl
2009-02-26  6:30   ` Greg Lindahl [this message]
2009-02-26  8:58     ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-26  9:30       ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-02-27 21:22         ` Greg Lindahl
2009-02-27 21:27           ` Greg Lindahl
2009-02-28  0:31           ` David Miller
2009-03-10 19:37             ` Greg Lindahl

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