Bug#852802: dnsrecon: please remove misleading mDNS refererence from package description

Lorenzo "Palinuro" Faletra palinuro at parrotsec.org
Sun Feb 5 16:53:37 UTC 2017


removed and committed

On 05/02/2017 07:46, Marcos Fouces wrote:
> Hi team!
> 
> I am terribly busy this weeks and i (surely) will be untill the end of
> march.
> 
> Can somebody help with this issue?
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Cheers, Marcos
> 
> 
> El 30/01/17 a las 15:17, Gianfranco Costamagna escribió:
>> Hi Marcos, ping?
>>
>> it might be nice to at least fix it on git :)
>>
>> G.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Il Venerdì 27 Gennaio 2017 14:09, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> ha scritto:
>> Package: dnsrecon
>> Version: 0.8.9-1
>> Severity: important
>>
> I installed dnsrecon for its advertised
>    "Enumerate Common mDNS records in the Local Network"
> feature.
> 
> After looking around for it, I finally found this:
> 
> bjorn at miraculix:~$ zgrep -i mdns /usr/share/doc/dnsrecon/*
> /usr/share/doc/dnsrecon/README.md.gz:- Removed mDNS enumeration due to
> the pybonjour library has been abandoned and faster ways are available
> to achieve enumeration of mDNS records in a sub-net.
> 
> Please update the package description when advertised features are
> removed.  Severity is set to 'important' since the package is
> completely unusable as an mDNS record enumerator, while it
> probably still is usuable as something else
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.0
>    APT prefers unstable
>    APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.10.0-rc5 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages dnsrecon depends on:
> ii  python-dnspython  1.15.0-1
> ii  python-netaddr    0.7.18-2
> pn  python:any        <none>
> 
> dnsrecon recommends no packages.
> 
> dnsrecon suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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