[wpkg-users] [Bug 169] New: Network info in logfile

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http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169

           Summary: Network info in logfile
           Product: WPKG
           Version: 1.1.x-M
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: wpkg.js
        AssignedTo: mangoo at wpkg.org
        ReportedBy: jens.geile at support.iserv.eu
         QAContact: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org


Today I got a call from a local administrator telling me that some of the
clients he tried to install with WPKG couldnt get the list of profiles from the
webserver and instead throw an error...

After some investigation and at least 15 minutes of talking over the telephone
we finally found out that the reason was a "misconfigured" network config.
Someone had entered some external DNS serves instead of dynamically using
whatever the local server gives the client over DHCP. This caused WPKG to
access the XML files created by the webserver from "outside" (from the internet
rather than from the lan) which my webserver answered with a 403 as I dont
allow access to the XML files for IPs not in the lan.

To make detection of such misconfigurations a little easier I'd like to see
some basic info about the network configuration of the client machine in WPKG's
logfile.
Useful info would be: IP, netmask, standard gateway, list of DNS servers,
workgroup/domain, machine name.

I'm not very well versed in JS but I think this should be rather easy to
accomplish and would save a lot of time in tracking down random errors.

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