Bug 378871 - Wireshark doesn't understand IPv6 addrs in /etc/resolv.conf
Summary: Wireshark doesn't understand IPv6 addrs in /etc/resolv.conf
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: wireshark
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Radek Vokál
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/sh...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-12 21:54 UTC by Valdis Kletnieks
Modified: 2007-12-21 09:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-12-21 09:58:27 UTC
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Description Valdis Kletnieks 2007-11-12 21:54:52 UTC
Description of problem:
When launching Wireshark on my laptop, it tosses 2 error messages:
 adns: /etc/resolv.conf:3: invalid nameserver address
`2001:468:c80:6101:213:72ff:fefc:d5cc'
adns: /etc/resolv.conf:5: invalid nameserver address
`2001:468:c80:2101:213:72ff:fefc:e1ff'

(Yes, there *are* BIND nameservers listening at those addresses, and they work
just fine for pretty much everything that uses the resolver in glibc).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
wireshark-0.99.6-3.fc8

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:
Wireshark should use IPv6 DNS servers if they are configured.  Failing that, it
should at least be able to *parse* the line, realize it's IPv6, and fallback to
to the 3 valid IPv4 nameservers also listed.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Radek Vokál 2007-11-21 16:35:36 UTC
Still reproducible with 0.99.7 - I filed an upstream bug and will dig into this
issue .. 

Comment 2 Radek Vokál 2007-11-21 19:04:23 UTC
Ok, the problem seems to be adns .. it lacks the IPv6 support. I can either
disable adns support (which was enabled recently and I haven't realized this
issue) or wait till it gets fixed on adns side .. 

Comment 3 Radek Vokál 2007-12-21 09:58:27 UTC
New release of adns was just added to rawhide and the IPv6 support is still not
there. So I'm removing adns support from wireshark (it can be easily recompiled
with the support, see spec file) and closing this bug as WONTFIX.


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