Re: [Nagios-devel] NRPE and NMAP problems?

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Re: [Nagios-devel] NRPE and NMAP problems?

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Mark Keller wrote:
> I have applied the patch to NRPE for CentOS and Solaris and it seems to solve
> the problem. Now I just get either an "SSL handshake failure" or "Network
> server getpeername() failure (22: Invalid argument)". Which would probably be
> expected coming from nmap connecting to the port.
>

I suspect so as well, and perhaps due to nmap leaving half open
connections or the like during its scanning.

> I have been using my own build from source for all my server platforms
> (CentOS/RedHat/Suse/Solaris/AIX). I did try Ubuntu's build of NRPE on my
> desktop and that didn't seem to have the problem. So they must have some patch
> in their build.
>

actually I was testing with source on ubuntu, and nmap as you described.

> I will run this patch on a couple of servers over the weekend and make sure I
> don't have any problems.
>

thanks. let me know if the testing was successful, if it was, I'll get
the developers to commit the diff.





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