Matt Simerson wrote:
> 
> 
> On May 11, 2010, at 9:19 PM, Robert Spier wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, I'm still a little concerned about potentially breaking the p0f
> > plugin for people using the other qpsmtpd engines, but I'm happier to
> > have someone properly maintaining it, and we'll deal with fallout
> > later, if any.  (Because it'll be pretty obvious when it breaks.)
> 
> I would agree with you entirely, except that before this patch, p0f support 
> was already broken. For everybody.
> 
> The minimum information the p0f plugin needs to match a TCP
> fingerprint against a p0f cache entry is the local_ip, local_port,
> remote_ip, and remote_port. The local elements weren't being set for
> any qpsmtpd engines. I'm guessing they were being set when the p0f
> plugin was written, and got subsequently removed. Now they are being
> set for the tcpserver based ones and thus p0f will work for them.

That is a convincing argument :)

-R

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