Bug 436290 - getaddrinfo return only IPv4 Address
Summary: getaddrinfo return only IPv4 Address
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glibc
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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: 436289 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-06 12:23 UTC by Jean-Jacques Sarton
Modified: 2008-03-11 09:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-03-11 09:11:32 UTC
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Description Jean-Jacques Sarton 2008-03-06 12:23:39 UTC 
Description of problem:
If hints.ai_family is set to AF_UNSPEC or if hints is NULL only, no records with
IPv6 (AF_INET6) are returned into the result

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.7-2

How reproducible:
query simply via getaddrinfo, with above settings for host with IPc6 addresses

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Expected results:
getaddrinfo() shall first look for AAAA records and then for A records.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2008-03-06 12:41:24 UTC 
*** Bug 436289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Jean-Jacques Sarton 2008-03-06 15:51:20 UTC 
The file /etc/nsswitch was not OK, it contained only file for the network: entry.
For programs as firefox, ftp, ssh, ... all worked fine as well for external as for
internal addresses,
After inserting of dns after file, all seen to work
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