[Nfd-dev] [Operators] broadcast storm of malformed packets

[Dehart, John]

All:

Anyone have any ideas where this might be coming from?

John

> On Sep 5, 2019, at 5:15 AM, Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear folks
> 
> I've reported a bug here:
> https://redmine.named-data.net/issues/4998 <https://redmine.named-data.net/issues/4998>
> 
> Yours, Junxiao
> 
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2019, 22:49 Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu <mailto:shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu>> wrote:
> Dear folks
> 
> It seems that there has been a broadcast storm going around the testbed.
> I first noticed this yesterday, and it's still going on as of an hour ago.
> 
> I'm attaching a packet sample captured on my server.
> The packets contain malformed Selectors, such as: (note that you can't have MetaInfo inside Selectors)
> <image.png>
> 
> I ran a program to respond to these packets, and the traffic seems to have disappeared.
> I suspect there are some sort of software bugs, causing the traffic to loop around instead of getting dropped.
> 
> Yours, Junxiao
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