Package: mtr-tiny Version: 0.69-2 Severity: normal On a machine with modern, IPv6-enabled glibc, but with a Linux kernel without IPv6 support, when mtr-ing a hostname that has an AAAA record, mtr bails out with the following error message:
$ mtr somehost.com Could not open IPv6 socket MTR should just fall back to the IPv4 address the resolver gives it, not give up. Secondly (and this is probably a related issue in the network code), on a host with IPv6-enabled glibc and an IPv6-enabled Linux kernel, but without a Global-scope IPv6 address, mtr-ing a hostname with an AAAA record results in no hops returning any data. In other applications, connect() will fail with "network unreachable". Is it possible for mtr to detect this as well, and fall back on IPv4 once it's clear that IPv6 is defunct? $ mtr -c 1 -r somehost.com HOST: something Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev (resolving somehost.com with 'host', and invoking mtr with the resulting IPv4 address works fine) Marcel Moreaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1 Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages mtr-tiny depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand mtr-tiny recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
