Bug#285371: exim4-daemon-heavy: gnutls-parms not recreated on startup, takes 20min after first tls conn

tom schorpp schorpp at schorpp.dyndns.dk
Fri Aug 12 11:25:30 UTC 2005


Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
Version: 4.52-1
Followup-For: Bug #285371


was all fine with 4.51, problems are back with this version.
maybe my p2 machine is too slow or does not deliver enough valid random data.

1. send a message from mozilla with tls
2. connection establishes and hangs on for ~20min
3. params-file appears and message is processed
4. log shows "tls-packet with unexpected length received" error
5. tls traffic ok then until next restart of daemon and deletion of params file.

maybe params creation takes too long at tls-connection, better recreate at startup 
of daemon.
pls provide 4.51 + security patches again until this is fixed.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.52 #1 built 02-Jul-2005 06:14:22
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2005
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December  3, 2003)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS Content_Scanning Old_Demime
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql
Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages exim4-daemon-heavy depends on:
ii  exim4-base                  4.52-1       support files for all exim MTA (v4
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.2                    4.2.52-17    Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libgnutls11                 1.0.16-13.1  GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libldap2                    2.1.30-3     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libmysqlclient12            4.0.23-3     mysql database client library
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-22      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpcre3                    4.5-1.1      Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libperl5.8                  5.8.7-3      Shared Perl library
ii  libpq4                      8.0.3-7      PostgreSQL C client library
ii  libsasl2                    2.1.19-1.5   Authentication abstraction library

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