[afnog] Fort Bug - FreeBSD

[Philip Paeps]

On 2021-07-06 16:21:25 (+0800), Mark Tinka wrote:
> I ran into an issue getting Fort to run on FreeBSD:
>
> Jul  2 10:46:14 nms2 fort[14304]: ERR: - Resource temporarily 
> unavailable
> Jul  2 10:46:14 nms2 fort[14304]: ERR: Client socket read interrupted
> Jul  2 10:46:14 nms2 fort[14304]: ERR: - Resource temporarily 
> unavailable
> Jul  2 10:46:14 nms2 fort[14304]: ERR: Error sending IPv6 Prefix PDU 
> to client.
>
> I reached out to the developers and they discovered a bug that appears 
> to be FreeBSD-specific. They issued a pre-release fix that I tested 
> yesterday, which resolves the problem. Details about it here:
>
> https://github.com/NICMx/FORT-validator/commit/bfb99704ad5c0476f401be57ee2403652a0a8af4
>
> They expect to have a full release of the updated code in a couple of 
> weeks, but just in case anyone runs into this problem, this is what 
> you can do to repair it for the time being.
>
> This raises an interesting observation for me - how many people are 
> running Fort on FreeBSD? Considering this bug's presence, it'd seem 
> not a lot (fair point, I've only tested it on FreeBSD-13).

I'm sure more people would run it if it were in the ports tree and 
people could easily install it with 'pkg install'. ;-)

If you've got a couple of minutes to write a Makefile, I can commit the 
port:
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/

Philip

-- 
Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Alternative Enterprises