NOTE:- bug #1485755 is already open for same issue in RHEL 7, but it is marked as won't fix hence raising this for RHEL 8.

Description:-
"authCommunity" directive with an IP address as "SOURCE" parameter causes snmptrapd to generate an error log "Address family for hostname not supported", which is quite misleading.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
net-snmp-5.7.2-24.el7_2.1.x86_64

How reproducible:
when an IP address or an IP network address ( IP/mask-length ) in a "authCommunity" directive in /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf
ex. authCommunity log,execute,net public 192.168.0.1

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create snmptrapd.conf with the following command.
  # echo "authCommunity log,execute,net public 192.168.0.1" > /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf
2. start snmptrapd daemon.
  # snmptrapd -Lf /tmp/s.log

Actual results:
an error message appears in the log file "/tmp/s.log" like:
---
 /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf: line 1: Error: Address family for hostname not supported
 net-snmp: 1 error(s) in config file(s)
 NET-SNMP version 5.7.2
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Expected results:
no errors should be reported.

Additional info:
this seems a bug in IP address parsing functionality of snmptrapd.
i watched with gdb how the daemon parse an address.
the daemon did parse twice per address, both as IPv4 at first and as IPv6 at second, even if the address had proved to be a valid IPv4 address.
i think this second trial ( parsing addres as IPv6 ) generated the error message.

the gdb log below shows:
 first, the daemon called inet_pton() with AF_INET(2) in netsnmp_udp_parse_security(). this was IPv4 address parsing.
 second, the daemon called inet_pton() with AF_INET6(10) in netsnmp_udp6_parse_security(). this was IPv6 address parsing.
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# gdb /usr/sbin/snmptrapd
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Reading symbols from /usr/sbin/snmptrapd...Reading symbols from /usr/sbin/snmptrapd...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install net-snmp-5.7.2-24.el7_2.1.x86_64
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x2ea0
(gdb) run -Lf /tmp/s.log
Starting program: /usr/sbin/snmptrapd -Lf /tmp/s.log
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".

Breakpoint 1, 0x0000555555556ea0 in main ()
(gdb) b inet_pton
Breakpoint 2 at 0x7ffff5a42240
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Breakpoint 2, 0x00007ffff5a42240 in inet_pton () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) p $rdi
$1 = 2
(gdb) x/s $rsi
0x7fffffff5290: "192.168.0.1"
(gdb) where
#0  0x00007ffff5a42240 in inet_pton () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1  0x00007ffff6b88548 in netsnmp_udp_parse_security () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#2  0x00007ffff74fb79b in vacm_gen_com2sec () from /lib64/libnetsnmpagent.so.31
#3  0x00007ffff74fc800 in vacm_create_simple () from /lib64/libnetsnmpagent.so.31
#4  0x00007ffff74fc8d0 in vacm_parse_authcommunity () from /lib64/libnetsnmpagent.so.31
#5  0x00007ffff6b5c436 in run_config_handler () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#6  0x00007ffff6b5cffd in read_config () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#7  0x00007ffff6b5dffb in read_config_files_in_path () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#8  0x00007ffff6b5e418 in read_config_files_of_type () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#9  0x00007ffff6b5e4a3 in read_config_files () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#10 0x00007ffff6b5e5f4 in read_configs () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#11 0x00005555555577eb in main ()
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Breakpoint 2, 0x00007ffff5a42240 in inet_pton () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) p $rdi
$2 = 10
(gdb) x/s $rsi
0x7fffffff5270: "192.168.0.1"
(gdb) where
#0  0x00007ffff5a42240 in inet_pton () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1  0x00007ffff6b865b1 in netsnmp_udp6_parse_security () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#2  0x00007ffff74fb79b in vacm_gen_com2sec () from /lib64/libnetsnmpagent.so.31
#3  0x00007ffff74fc226 in vacm_create_simple () from /lib64/libnetsnmpagent.so.31
#4  0x00007ffff74fc8d0 in vacm_parse_authcommunity () from /lib64/libnetsnmpagent.so.31
#5  0x00007ffff6b5c436 in run_config_handler () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#6  0x00007ffff6b5cffd in read_config () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#7  0x00007ffff6b5dffb in read_config_files_in_path () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#8  0x00007ffff6b5e418 in read_config_files_of_type () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#9  0x00007ffff6b5e4a3 in read_config_files () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#10 0x00007ffff6b5e5f4 in read_configs () from /lib64/libnetsnmp.so.31
#11 0x00005555555577eb in main ()
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Detaching after fork from child process 15338.
[Inferior 1 (process 15320) exited normally]
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