Bug 129059

Summary: Telnet seg faults when trying to connect to a host that has only an AAAA record
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Brian Bruns <bruns>
Component: krb5Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Brian Bruns 2004-08-03 16:46:13 UTC
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Description of problem:
Telnet seg faults when trying to connect to a hostname that has only
an AAAA record, and not a A or CNAME.  However, connecting to a
hostname that has both A and AAAA records works normally.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
telnet-0.17-30

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. 'telnet' to everest.ipv6.sosdg.org or negation.ipv6.unixnetwork.net
(use port 22 or 25)


Actual Results:  [root@everest ~]# telnet everest.ipv6.sosdg.org 25
Segmentation fault


Expected Results:  Should have opened a connection and displayed the
SMTP banner, or whatever the host on the other end was programmed to
send on connect.

Additional info:

glibc-2.3.3-39, kernel 2.6.7


Example hostnames to use:

AAAA only records: everest.ipv6.sosdg.org, negation.ipv6.unixnetwork.net
A/AAAA records: mail.sosdg.org

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2004-08-16 10:12:36 UTC
please provide the output of:

$ which telnet

Comment 2 Brian Bruns 2004-08-16 21:26:39 UTC
[root@everest ~]# which telnet
/usr/kerberos/bin/telnet


Part of the krb5-workstation-1.3.4-2 package.  Definately not the
telnet I thought I was using (aka /usr/bin/telnet).

Comment 3 Brian Bruns 2004-08-16 21:29:55 UTC
Oops, hit send too fast.

meant to add that /usr/bin/telnet works ok as expected.

[root@everest ~]# /usr/bin/telnet everest.ipv6.sosdg.org 22
Trying 2001:618:400:b725::1...
Connected to everest.ipv6.sosdg.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.8.1p1

Comment 4 Brian Bruns 2004-08-30 02:10:08 UTC
This bug probably needs to be assigned to both the krb5 and regular
telnet version.

[root@everest ~]# /usr/bin/telnet negation.ipv6.unixnetwork.net 22
Segmentation fault

It does not do it when you telnet to everest.ipv6.sosdg.org, just when
you do negation.ipv6.unixnetwork.net.  Both records in the nameserver
are done in the same way (I did them at the same time).

Package version is:
telnet-0.17-30


Let me know if any Fedora/RH developers need access to one of the dev
boxes for debugging, and I will let you know how to gain access.

Comment 5 Nalin Dahyabhai 2004-11-02 00:27:22 UTC
Bundled apps seem to be checking for errors from gethostbyname_r incorrectly. 
Fixing in 1.3.5-1.