Bug#303579: hostname: fails to work on IPv6-only hosts

2005-08-23 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 01:06:43AM +0200, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > -4/-6 options could be added to hostname later, but I think hostname > should rely on the resolver configuration for its default behavior > anyway, so this patch would be a good starting point in any case. Alright, I've applied this

Bug#303579: hostname: fails to work on IPv6-only hosts

2005-08-20 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:46:35PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 02:39:52AM +0200, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > > This new patch fixes this, and relies on the resolver configuration to > > choose the address family used by gethostbyname, which is better imho, > > and doesn't make

Bug#303579: hostname: fails to work on IPv6-only hosts

2005-08-20 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 02:39:52AM +0200, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > This new patch fixes this, and relies on the resolver configuration to > choose the address family used by gethostbyname, which is better imho, > and doesn't make use of the gethostbyname2, which is a GNU extension. Is this patch yo

Bug#303579: hostname: fails to work on IPv6-only hosts

2005-04-15 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +0200, I wrote: > Here is a patch which makes hostname try an IPv6 lookup in case the IPv4 > one fails. This is needed to make hostname work on IPv6-only hosts. It seems defining 'option inet6' (which I just discovered) in /etc/resolv.conf fixes part of the probl

Bug#303579: hostname: fails to work on IPv6-only hosts

2005-04-07 Thread Jeremie Koenig
Package: hostname Version: 2.13 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hello, Here is a patch which makes hostname try an IPv6 lookup in case the IPv4 one fails. This is needed to make hostname work on IPv6-only hosts. This is a quick minimal non-instrusive half-fix only. I'd like to implement the followin