<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 23, 2007 6:14 PM, Roger Dingledine <<a href="mailto:arma@mit.edu">arma@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 05:55:44PM -0800, Kyle Williams wrote:<br>> When the following command is used with Tor's ControlPort, Tor will<br>> temporarily freeze until NetBIOS either resolves the request or times out.
<br>> This issue is specific to Windows, Linux and Mac are not affected.<br>><br>> ---------------------<br>> SETCONF LOG="notice file \\\\www.janusvm.com\\TEST\\notice.log"<br>> ---------------------
<br><br></div>Interesting. Is it plausible to respond "well, don't do that then?"<br></blockquote><div><br>It would be a good suggestion.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>There are a few other cases where Tor will freeze doing a dns resolve,<br>e.g. if you specify a fqdn rather than IP address for your hidden<br>service's location. But in your case above, it's not even Tor that's
<br>doing the resolve -- so I have no idea how we'd go about "fixing" that.<br></blockquote><div><br>I'll think about this some more. <br>If I come up with an answer I'll be sure to let you know.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>I guess we could disallow filenames that look funny. Is there a valid<br>use case for netbios calls here, or do they always signal funny business?
<br><div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>I do like being able to save a log to somewhere else. <br>This is particularly useful when setting up my own Tor network to test with. <br>I generally consolidate all the logs to one share on one server.
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> I played with the Dirport for about an hour the other night, and it didn't
<br>> seem to suffer from the same issue. I'll "focus" on the Dirport more after<br>> the holiday rush is over, probably next year.<br><br></div>Sounds great. Yeah, if somebody can trigger it remotely, that's
<br>definitely something to fix. I don't see how they could though.<br><br>Thanks!<br><font color="#888888">--Roger<br><br></font></blockquote></div><br>I'm not sure how someone could trigger this remotely, but again, if I find out I'll be sure to let you know.
<br><br>- Kyle<br><br>