Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 135217
IPv6 support in wget should be enabled
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:51 EST
Description of problem: wget has IPv6 support, but it isn't enabled currently, so downloading from IPv6 hosts fails. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): wget-1.9.1-17 How reproducible: Everytime, see below. Steps to Reproduce: 1. host -t AAAA ipv6.host.tld -> ipv6.host.tld has AAAA address ::1 1. wget http://ipv6.host.tld -> --22:04:51-- http://ipv6.host.tld/ -> => `index.html' -> Resolving ipv6.host.tld... failed: Host not found. Actual results: IPv6 support in wget isn't enabled; the following is working for me: --- snipp --- --- wget.spec 2004-09-29 16:56:39.000000000 +0200 +++ wget.spec.rsc 2004-10-10 22:06:58.000000000 +0200 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ CPPFLAGS=`pkg-config --cflags openssl`; export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS=`pkg-config --libs openssl`; export LDFLAGS fi -%configure --with-ssl --enable-LFS +%configure --with-ssl --enable-LFS --enable-ipv6 make %install --- snapp --- Expected results: IPv6 support in wget should be enabled.
Wget's current IPV6 support breaks downloads on hosts without IPV6 interfaces. Try to disable IPV6 on your machine p.e. if you have alias net-pf-10 off install ipv6 /bin/true in your modprobe.conf file and reboot (or get rid of the already loaded ipv6 module by any other means). I'm waiting for the upstream maintainers to fix this.
Oh sorry, I didn't recognize this (I'm already living in a only IPv4+6 world), you're totally right.