INN Patches by Topic: INND
innd.bindaddr.patch (At Joe Greco's INN Patch Shop)
"(INN 1.4unoff4 based but can port to 1.5/1.5.1 with minimal effort)
forces innd to bind to port 119 of a specific IP address, in case you're running a connectd-style NNRP spawner on another IP address of the same machine."
ncbuffer64k.patch (At Joe Greco's INN Patch Shop)
"(INN 1.4unoff4 based but can port to 1.5/1.5.1 with minimal effort)
raises another too-low parameter."
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/unoff-patches/1.5.1/addhist-buffer-toosmall.patch
2 Kb Tue Apr 08 15:32:00 1997
Type: Bug Fix
Symptom: INN hangs when processing ctlinnd addhist with massively crossposted articles
Applies to: INN-1.5/innd/cc.c and INN-1.5.1/innd/cc.c
OS: all
Incorporated into stock 1.5.1: No
Incorporated into stock 1.5.1sec2: No
Incorporated into stock inn1.5.1corr/1.7: Yes
Incorporated into stock 1.6b3: Yes
Authored: Larry Rosenman (8 Apr 1997)
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/unoff-patches/1.5.1/null-pointer.patch
3 Kb Fri Dec 20 15:51:00 1996
Type: Bug/Security Fix
Symptom: 1060 character Path header crashes innd.
Applies to: INN-1.5.1/innd/art.c
OS: all
Incorporated into stock 1.5.1: No
Incorporated into stock 1.5.1sec2: No
Incorporated into stock inn1.5.1corr/1.7: Yes
Incorporated into stock 1.6b3: Yes
Authored: Michael Shields, 17 Dec 1996
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/unoff-patches/1.5/null-pointer.patch
3 Kb Fri Dec 20 15:51:00 1996
Type: Bug/Security Fix
Symptom: 1060 character Path header crashes innd.
Applies to: INN-1.5/innd/art.c
OS: all
Incorporated into 1.5.1: No (see separate patch)
Authored: Michael Shields, 17 Dec 1996
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/unoff-patches/1.4unoff4/proctable-bug.patch
1 Kb Mon Aug 05 00:00:00 1996
Type: Bug fix
Symptom: segfault during call to SITEprocdied(), or innd gets big, or
better performance if periodically restarted
Applies to: INN 1.5a2 back to 1.4.unoff4
OS: all
Incorporated into 1.5.1: Yes
Authored: Fletcher Mattox, 3 Aug 1996
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/unoff-patches/1.4unoff4/inn-on-DEC-alpha
2 Kb Wed Mar 09 00:00:00 1994
Type: OS workaround
Symptom:sizeof(unsigned long) not what is expected for inet_addr
Applies to INN: various files. See the patch.
OS: all
Incorporated into 1.5.1: Yes
Authored:Rich Salz, 10 Nov 1993
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/unoff-patches/1.5/ACT_MMAP-defines-MMAP.patch
3 Kb Mon Dec 09 17:54:00 1996
Type: Configuration problem
Symptom: Could not define MMAP for active file and not for DBZ
Applies to: INN-1.5/include/clibrary.h
OS: all
Incorporated into 1.5.1: Yes
Authored: Per Hedeland 7 Dec 1996
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/unoff-patches/1.4unoff4/linux-2.x.patch
8 Kb Sun Oct 06 00:00:00 1996
Type: Include file ordering, Linux loadavg
Symptom: FD_ macros defined incorrectly
Applies to INN: 1.4unoff4, various files
OS: all, some Linux specific
Incorporated into 1.5.1: Yes
Authored: Roland Alder/Jonathan Kamens, 5 Oct 1996
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/unoff-patches/1.5/slow-history-lookups.patch
3 Kb Mon Nov 25 16:14:00 1996
Type: Bug slows down makehistory -i -s
Symptom: makehistory -i -s runs slow
Applies to: INN-1.5/expire/makehistory.c
OS: all
Incorporated into 1.5.1: Yes
Authored: James Brister, 20 Nov 1996
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/unoff-patches/1.5.1/innd-fix-for-overchan-backlogs.patch
(At Joe Greco's INN Patch Shop as overchan.underflow.patch )
Type: Bug fix
Symptom: Channel feeds (such as the one to overchan) sometimes backlog.
Applies to: INN-1.5.1/site.c
OS: all
This patch dated Apr 8 1997 has its own defect, discussed in a Usenet message of 08/21/1997 in news.software.nntp It may be corrected at the time you read this.
Incorporated into stock 1.5.1: No
Incorporated into stock 1.5.1sec2: No
Incorporated into stock inn1.5.1corr/1.7: Yes, with defect fixed
Incorporated into stock 1.6b3: Yes, with defect fixed.
Authored: Jerry Aguirre, 8 Apr 1997
innd.postcount.fix.diff (At Erols.com)
"This fixes a problem in how innd handles aliased groups with crossposts.....Profiling here indicates that this was eating about 20-30% of the time innd uses. This patch changes the behavior to only clear the flag in the groups that we actually marked, after we've done the check."
-B-r-o-a-d-e-n- your knowledge
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