Bug 534087
| Summary: | ping6 fails if a scope-id is specified for a link scope address | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | john.haxby <john.haxby> | ||||
| Component: | iputils | Assignee: | Jan Synacek <jsynacek> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-daemons | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 5.4 | CC: | rvokal | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2013-03-13 12:13:37 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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See also bug 505044. This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This request was erroneously denied for the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The error has been fixed and this request has been re-proposed for the current release. This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has entered Production 2 phase. For more details see https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. As this bug is not qualified as critical, it is closed as WONTFIX. |
Created attachment 368404 [details] Don't circumvent the getaddrinfo() RFC 4007 scope-id address recognition Description of problem: As a quick check to make sure ipv6 is sort-of working it's useful to be able to ping a remote node. This is especially useful if the configuration is incomplete and you just want to ping some specific node using its link scope address. Unfortunately, this doesn't work because ping6 doesn't handle the "address%scope-id" syntax properly (even though the code looks as though it tries). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): iputils-20020927-46.el5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ping6 fe80::206:5bff:fe6b:c8a7%eth0 Actual results: connect: Invalid argument Expected results: some sort of unreachable destination message unless you happen to have a NIC with that MAC address. Additional info: It is possible to use "-I eth0" but you should be able to use the scope-id like most things that support IPv6 manage: iputils-20071127-8.fc11 gets this right. The attached patch corrects the over-enthusiastic calling of inet_pton(). This is both unnecessary (getaddrinfo() calls inet_pton() internally) and wrong because the use of inet_pton() means that the RFC 4007 %scope-id is ignored.