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Bug 602966

Summary: gethostbyname2 queried with AF_INET6 (IPv6) return ok with IPv4 address
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: nss_ldapAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ondrej Moriš <omoris>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 4.8CC: albert.fluegel, cward, dpal, jfenal, jhradile, jnansi, jplans, knweiss, nalin, ndevos, omoris, pm-eus, tao, tdsc.af
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: nss_ldap-253-7.el4_8.3 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Being built without the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support, when the "gethostbyname2()" function was used, nss_ldap used to return the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address even though the IPv6 had been requested. With this update, nss_ldap produces the expected output.
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Last Closed: 2010-07-19 07:17:29 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 205243    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2010-06-11 06:56:39 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #205243 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 5 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-07-16 14:27:38 UTC
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

New Contents:
Being built without the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support, when the "gethostbyname2()" function was used, nss_ldap used to return the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address even though the IPv6 had been requested. With this update, nss_ldap produces the expected output.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2010-07-19 07:17:29 UTC
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-2010-0538.html