Re: [Tools-discuss] idnits tool strangeness

Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> Fri, 26 April 2013 16:50 UTC

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I have seen something similar to this, but never got around to reporting it.  I usually run it again and it goes away.

Bob

On Apr 26, 2013, at 3:18 AM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:

> Something is not right about the online idnits tools.
> 
> From a recent mail exchange:
> 
>> I do not know why the nits check tool http://www.ietf.org/tools/idnits/ reports so many problems.  While I do not understand many of them, for example:
>> 
>> /tmp/draft-ietf-lwig-terminology-04.txt(185): update_references(    [RFC6606] distinguishes "power-affluent" nodes (mains-powered or)
> 
> This instance seems to work better:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/tools/idnits/
> 
> Still, you have to ignore the barrage of "outdated state file" messages at the start, though (see below).
> 
> I'm using the homebrew idnits (just submitted a pull request there, BTW), so I'm not directly concerned.
> But can we restore online idnits to its former greatness?
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 
> 
> idnits 2.12.16 
> 
> tmp/draft-ietf-lwig-terminology.txt:
> - The draft- state file is not from today.
>   Attempting to download a newer one...
> - No draft-brandt-6man-lowpanz state file. Attempting to download it...
> - No draft-clausen-lln-rpl-experiences state file. Attempting to download it...
> - No draft-hui-vasseur-roll-rpl-deployment state file. Attempting to download it...
> - No draft-ietf-6lowpan-btle state file. Attempting to download it...
> - No draft-ietf-lwig-terminology state file. Attempting to download it...
> - No draft-ietf-roll-terminology state file. Attempting to download it...
> - No draft-mariager-6lowpan-v6over-dect-ule state file. Attempting to download it...
> - No rfc0793 state file. Attempting to download it...
>   Attempted to download rfc0793 state...
>   Failure fetching the file, proceeding without it.
> - The rfc1024 state file is not from today.
>   Attempting to download a newer one...
> - The rfc172 state file is not from today.
>   Attempting to download a newer one...
> - The rfc1981 state file is not from today.
>   Attempting to download a newer one...
> - No rfc218 state file. Attempting to download it...
> - No rfc250 state file. Attempting to download it...
> - No rfc284 state file. Attempting to download it...
>   Attempted to download rfc284 state...
>   Failure fetching the file, proceeding without it.
> - No rfc3149 state file. Attempting to download it...
> - The rfc421 state file is not from today.
>   Attempting to download a newer one...
> - The rfc4838 state file is not from today.
>   Attempting to download a newer one...
> - No rfc4919 state file. Attempting to download it...
> - No rfc6551 state file. Attempting to download it...
> - No rfc6606 state file. Attempting to download it...
> - The rfc793 state file is not from today.
>   Attempting to download a newer one...
> - The rfc802 state file is not from today.
>   Attempting to download a newer one...
> - No rfc9959 state file. Attempting to download it...
>   Attempted to download rfc9959 state...
>   Failure fetching the file, proceeding without it.
> 
>  Checking boilerplate required by RFC 5378 and the IETF Trust (see
>  http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info)
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>     No issues found here.
> 
>  Checking nits according to http://www.ietf.org/id-info/1id-guidelines.txt:
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