Bug 75253

Summary:	ncftp cannot connect to server with IPv6 addresses
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper>
Component:	ncftp	Assignee:	Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	ynakai
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Description Ulrich Drepper 2002-10-06 03:52:15 UTC

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Description of problem:
I don't know why but ncftp cannot connect to some sites.  I don't know what
differentiates them

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.ncftpls ftp://nl.linux.org
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  Could not get a socket: Address family not supported by protocol.
ncftpls: cannot open nl.linux.org: could not get a new stream socket.


Expected Results:  Listing of the FTP server.

Additional info:

The name lookup inside is most probably (ok, definitely) using getaddrinfo. On
servers which have IPv6 addresses they will be reported back first if the caller
is interested in either.  If now the ipv6 kernel module is not loaded the socket
calls will fail:


socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0)        = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented)
socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0)        = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented)
socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0)        = -1 EAFNOSUPPORT (Address family not su


ncftp should not fail in this case unless there is no IPv4 address at all
returned.  This is not the case for nl.linux.org.

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2002-11-18 11:52:53 UTC

it seems fixed in ncftp 3.1.5

Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2003-07-22 10:56:38 UTC

*** Bug 74314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***