Hi, I can confirm this behaviour. While one can work around it using "options inet6" in /etc/resolv.conf, a better solution is converting hostname to use getaddrinfo() instead of gethostbyname(). getaddrinfo() is the preferred function to resolve addresses, see for example this entry from Ulrich Drepper:
http://udrepper.livejournal.com/16116.html So, after applying the patch I attached, the new version of hostname correctly handles my IPv6-only host: $ hostname x200 $ hostname -f No address associated with name $ hostname -i 192.168.1.42 $ ./hostname-patched x200 $ ./hostname-patched -f x200.zekjur.net $ ./hostname-patched -i 2001:4d88:1008:4242:21f:16ff:fe06:3aab Note that using getaddrinfo() removes old cruft, that is, the aliases field returned by gethostbyname(). Thus, hostname -a will not work anymore. I’ve documented this in the manpage and left the option available for backwards compatibility. Please apply the attached patch, Thanks and best regards, Michael
hostname-ipv6.patch
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