ports/72459: port net/xprobe is completely broken

[Oberon Uranus]

>Number:         72459
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       port net/xprobe is completely broken
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Oct 09 08:00:45 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Oberon Uranus
>Release:        5.2.1-RELEASE-p11
>Organization:
örebro Algorithmics
>Environment:
FreeBSD dxlvi.chello.hu 5.2.1-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p11 #0: Tue Oct  5 10:52:20 CEST 2004     root at dxlvi.chello.hu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DXLVI  i386

>Description:
I installed xprobe from ports, and then:

iii ~% xprobe2 ftp.kernel.org

Xprobe2 v.0.2 Copyright (c) 2002-2003 fygrave at tigerteam.net, ofir at sys-security.com, meder at areopag.net

[+] Target is ftp.kernel.org
[+] Loading modules.
[+] Following modules are loaded:
[x] [1] ping:icmp_ping  -  ICMP echo discovery module
[x] [2] ping:tcp_ping  -  TCP-based ping discovery module
[x] [3] ping:udp_ping  -  UDP-based ping discovery module
[x] [4] infogather:ttl_calc  -  TCP and UDP based TTL distance calculation
[x] [5] infogather:portscan  -  TCP and UDP PortScanner
[x] [6] fingerprint:icmp_echo  -  ICMP Echo request fingerprinting module
[x] [7] fingerprint:icmp_tstamp  -  ICMP Timestamp request fingerprinting module
[x] [8] fingerprint:icmp_amask  -  ICMP Address mask request fingerprinting module
[x] [9] fingerprint:icmp_info  -  ICMP Information request fingerprinting module
[x] [10] fingerprint:icmp_port_unreach  -  ICMP port unreachable fingerprinting module
[x] [11] fingerprint:tcp_hshake  -  TCP Handshake fingerprinting module
[+] 11 modules registered
[+] Initializing scan engine
[+] Running scan engine
IP::set_src::gethostbyname: Unknown host
iv ~% ping -c 1 ftp.kernel.org
PING zeus-pub.kernel.org (204.152.189.116): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 204.152.189.116: icmp_seq=0 ttl=49 time=192.904 ms

--- zeus-pub.kernel.org ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 192.904/192.904/192.904/0.000 ms

Also, I tried to mail the authors some days ago, their mail server is broken :/
>How-To-Repeat:
pushd /usr/ports/net/xprobe
make install clean
rehash
xprobe2 www.freebsd.org

>Fix:
None =(
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: