Opened at 2010-09-13T01:34:34Z

Last modified at 2013-10-17T17:00:07Z

#1198 new defect

Bogus tub location causes introducer error

Reported by: akp Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: soon
Component: code-frontend-web Version: 1.4.1
Keywords: error introducer security DoS Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description (last modified by daira)

I had a misconfiguration during my first attempt to connect to the "volunteergrid" and had my "tub.location" set to a directory (/home/tahoe/data) instead of a hostname.

Unfortunately it looks like the introducer has remembered this misconfiguration and is unable to present its web interface: ​http://introducer.volunteergrid.org:8123/ currently says "<type 'exceptions.ValueError?'>: unknown FURL prefix in 'pb://5el4pxsjpfi22zycs27wikrgaaxcn5jh@/home/tahoe/data/3mz2c7mmgsa6otlugokvv4ao4pu2h4eb'"

I would think the introducer should ignore bogus entries like this.

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed at 2010-09-13T02:24:10Z by akp

  • Version changed from 1.8β to 1.4.1

comment:2 Changed at 2011-05-20T22:34:23Z by davidsarah

  • Keywords error introducer added

comment:3 Changed at 2013-10-17T17:00:07Z by daira

  • Description modified (diff)
  • Keywords security DoS added
  • Milestone changed from undecided to soon

Huh, this is a serious bug (that any client can cause an introducer DoS, even unintentionally). Does it still exist?

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