Description of problem: Jwhois is unusable with IPv4 only connections on RHEL 5.0/5.0.x/5.1/5.1.x when having to query e.g. whois.ripe.net. [root@tux ~]# whois 81.91.170.12 [Querying whois.ripe.net] [Unable to connect to remote host] [root@tux ~]# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): jwhois-3.2.3-8.el5 How reproducible: Everytime, see above. Actual results: There's a working patch for Fedora available which should be backported to RHEL. Further information as well as a backtrace for this are in bug #415481 and bug #394251. The problem is the exactly same in RHEL and Fedora, when I compared the strace results. Expected results: Working jwhois for whois.ripe.net when having IPv6 only connection. The problem comes up, because whois.ripe.net has IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and the IPv6 comes before IPv4 normally.
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This issue has NOT been solved for RHEL 5.3 - jwhois is still unusable with IPv4 only connections on RHEL 5.x. Will we get this solved?
I've cross-filed this issue as Service Request 2041338.
*** Bug 625881 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Robert, We discovered another issue during testing, it has same symptoms as in bug #624608. We have a fix, which seems to work fine. Because it modifies original patch (from bug #415481 and bug #394251), I'd like to ask you to test whether it still fixes the problem reported here. Scratch build can be obtained here: http://people.redhat.com/vcrhonek/
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0745.html