[afnog] xinetd bug?

[jaco engelbrecht]

hi Mark,

On 27 May 2007, at 19:04, Mark Tinka wrote:
>
>> I ran into similar issues just now when I tried to install
>> it, to see if I can replicate your problem.
>>
>> After some fiddling, IPv4 tftp transfers seems to be
>> working fine now with the configuration below.
>>
>> Can you try this?
>
> I've tested the configuration you sent, as well as multiple
> variations of it and others per the manual pages with no
> success.

OK, I think I figured out what might be the "problem":

[root at tsogang ~]# netstat -ap udp | grep tftp
udp4       0      0  *.tftp                 *.*

(So I am only listening on IPv4 for tftp requests...)

Establish a tftp connection to "localhost", succeeds, but a "get" fails:

[bje at tsogang ~]$ tftp localhost
tftp> get TSOGANG
Transfer timed out.

tftp> quit

Establish a tftp connection to "127.0.0.1", succeeds, and a "get"  
succeeds:

[bje at tsogang ~]$ tftp 127.0.0.1
tftp> get TSOGANG
Received 11565 bytes in 0.0 seconds
tftp> quit

Can you confirm whether this is happening in your case too?

>
> I should, perhaps, add that the box I'm working with is an
> UltraSparc-based machine running FreeBSD-6.2_RELENG/Sparc64
> (standard install, nothing kinky), if that should be of any
> consequence.
>
> I'll probably switch to a standalone TFTP server or
> use 'inetd' for the time being until I figure this one out.

I can recommend tftp-hpa, if you do not want to use /usr/libexec/ 
tftpd and inetd:

[root at tsogang /usr/ports/ftp/tftp-hpa]# more pkg-descr
tftp-hpa is portable, BSD derived tftp server.  It supports advanced
options such as blksize, blksize2, tsize, timeout, and utimeout.
It also supported rulebased security options.


Jaco

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