Bug 56148 - ncftp fail to connect to IPv4 + IPv6 hosts from IPv4 hosts
Summary: ncftp fail to connect to IPv4 + IPv6 hosts from IPv4 hosts
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ncftp
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-11-13 12:56 UTC by Per Steinar Iversen
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-11-13 12:56:39 UTC
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Description Per Steinar Iversen 2001-11-13 12:56:34 UTC 
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Description of problem:
ncftp can not connect to a host supporting both IPv4 and IPv6
if the connecting host only supports IPv4. ncftp then fails with:

Could not get a socket: Address family not supported by protocol.
Could not open host <hostname>: could not get a new stream socket.


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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Setup ftp host that supports both IPv4 and IPv6
2.Add both A and AAAA records in DNS for the ftp host.
3.Try to connect with ncftp
	

Actual Results:  No connection created.

Expected Results:  Norman ftp connected.

Additional info:

It is possible to use the ftp command supplied with RH 7.2, it does not
have this problem, but is not as nice as ncftp.
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-11-20 17:23:15 UTC 
Fixed in 3.0.4-2
Comment 2 Yusuf Goolamabbas 2002-01-28 13:59:46 UTC 
Bero, Can this be pushed out as an errata
Comment 3 Pekka Savola 2002-03-13 12:50:20 UTC 
I'm not personally sure if that's warranted.. there are only few ftp servers
with both addresses in
the same name.
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