Recompiling a macport (hopefully a simple question)

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Jul 29 10:35:02 PDT 2010


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On Jul 29, 2010, at 11:52, Brooks Swinnerton wrote:

> Thanks for the help Scott, I'm going to try that first thing when I get out of work. Ryan, from what I have read on the internet the reason that I need to change the interface (and yes, ethernet interface) is because I've read from a few forums that although there is the -i parameter for running the dnsiff programs, it doesn't work unless you compile the program with the interface you're going to use. I have yet to see this on a buglist page, only forums. But I suppose that a variant could be useful until it is patched in the program. Here are some of my sources:
> 
> http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?t=273569 (Post #6 & #8)
> http://blog.ironguard.net/2007/06/how-to-use-webspy-from-dsniff-suite.html (towards the end)

These articles are 3 and 4 years old; are you sure they're still current? They also refer to Linux, not Mac OS X or its ancestor BSD; are you sure they're relevant?



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