Bro always crashes

Vern Paxson vern at ee.lbl.gov
Fri May 7 01:33:42 PDT 1999


> without seeing a SYN-ack from B.80 in between.  This then leads to
> Bro holding state for the half-established connection after it sees
> A.1234 -> B.80.

I should add that I diagnosed this because the connection summaries
Bro generated on stdout looked like:

925897359.600000 0.26 http ? 1775 199.108.25.84 130.104.28.234 SHR X

"SHR" indicates a half-stablished connection that was closed by the
responder.  (It's the responder in this case because the only packets
Bro saw were the SYN-ack [rather than the SYN] and the FIN.)

This is a highly unusual state for normal traffic, i.e. when Bro sees
both sides of the connections.

		Vern



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