Re: snmpd crash after "response to proxy request illegal. We're screwed"

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 29 March 2011 11:47, Tomasz Chmielewski <[email protected]> wrote:
> snmpd (5.6.1) crashes for me quite frequently after logging "response to proxy request illegal.  We're screwed".
>
> Is there anything I can do to debug it further?

What proxy entries do you have in the snmpd.conf file?
What queries are you sending to the agent?



> There was a similar case back in 2005, with no fix though:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.unix.net-snmp-users/browse_thread/thread/2454a5a796fb5814/1e7ebe0455051c7a

>From a quick scan of that thread,  it looks as if the underlying problem
was a bug in squid,  which failed to handle GETNEXT requests for two or
more varbinds correctly.
   Are you also working with squid - or do you have different proxied
applications?

Dave

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