News

• Bugfix release
• POP3: fixed a small typo that caused the module to be practically unusable

• new service module: IRC
• HTTP:
• added SSL support (https)
• SMTP:
• added SSL support (smtps)
• added support for service extension STARTTLS
• added support for enforced authentication
• POP3:
• added SSL support (pop3s)
• added support for capabilities STLS, TOP, IMPLEMENTATION, LOGIN-DELAY, EXPIRE, RESP-CODES and AUTH-RESP-CODE
• FTP:
• added SSL support (ftps)
• TFTP:
• added support for TFTP options blksize, timeout and tsize
• added virtual file system
• Redirect:
• added support for ICMP
• some minor bugfixes

• Bugfix release
• FTP: always re-read content of static ftp root directory on startup
• SMTP: set header 'Return-Path' to '<>' for MAILER-DAEMON messages, replaced header 'Delivered-To' with 'Envelope-To'
• POP3: fixed logging of non-printable characters

• new service modules: FTP and Syslog
• added support for HTTP methods POST and OPTIONS
• added support for port numbers in HTTP 'Host' header and 'absoluteURI'
• changed SMTP HELO/EHLO response
• added support for SMTP service extensions ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES, SEND, SAML, SOML, TURN, ETRN, ATRN, MTRK, BINARYMIME, CHUNKING, DELIVERBY, SUBMITTER, CHECKPOINT, NO-SOLICITING, FUTURERELEASE
• added configuration options 'dummy_banner' and 'dummy_banner_wait'
• added configuration options 'redirect_ignore_bootp' and 'redirect_ignore_netbios'
• added configuration options 'create_reports' and 'report_language'
• changed format of service logfile to include service child process id
• changed default value for 'service_timeout' to 120 seconds
• install script 'set_permissions.sh' renamed to 'setup.sh'

• Version 1.0 released

• Perl library Net::Server is no longer included with the INetSim distribution
• new service module: Dummy (just logs all received data)
• added 'redirect' feature:
• uses Linux kernel IP_QUEUE, so only available on Linux platforms
• allows for IP-based connection redirection (tcp/udp)
• supports static rules for redirection based on target IP address, port and/or protocol
• can act as a NAT router for redirection of packets to other hosts
• optionally varies the TTL value of IP packets sent to the clients from different "virtual" connection targets to make traffic look more authentic
• DNS: added handling of AAAA queries (returns empty answer with status 'NOERROR')
• SMTP: add 'Received:' headers to messages
• HTTP: improved Request-URI parsing, now supports absolute URIs
• NTP: added configuration option for less strict checks
• added timeout handling for all service modules
• removed 'bind_address' configuration options for individual services
• some minor bugfixes

• new service module: finger
• added configuration option for SMTP and POP3 to select if only reversible or all supported authentication mechanisms are offered
• added support for SMTP extensions DSN, ETRN, EXPN, HELP and VERP

• new service module: TFTP
• added configuration options for (re)creation of POP3 mailboxes
• added sample SPAM mbox file

• First public release