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and subject line Bug#427067: fixed in netbase 4.30
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Package: netbase
Version: 4.29
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
/etc/hosts contains:
8<-------------------------------------
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
------------------------------------->8
One would expect though that a "ping6 localhost" would work, but because
it is not in /etc/hosts it doesn't as there is no IPv6 address.
Daemons, which support IPv6 might get configured to use "localhost",
this thus binds them only to 127.0.0.1, but not to the IPv6 equivalent,
even though the daemon might implement getaddrinfo() and the loop
correctly.
As such, I propose that the above gets changed into:
8<-------------------------------------
127.0.0.1 localhost ip4-localhost ip4-loopback
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
------------------------------------->8
This to make it consistent with IPv4.
There is not a single RFC or draft that refers to ip6-localhost or
ip6-loopback (verified by grepping to the ~3Gb of drafts I have).
::1 is always mentioned to be "the Loopback address" or as "localhost".
http://www.sixxs.net/archive/ietf/rfc4038.txt (Application Aspects of
IPv6 Transition) contains:
localhost. IN A 127.0.0.1
IN AAAA ::1
to back that up.
Please resolve this issue, as it avoids having to program a loop for 2
different kind of address families into programs, while getaddrinfo()
should resolve that problem already.
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages netbase depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii ifupdown 0.6.8 high level tools to configure netw
ii iputils-ping [ping] 3:20070202-1 Tools to test the reachability of
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii openbsd-inetd [inet-superse 0.20050402-6 The OpenBSD Internet Superserver
netbase recommends no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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Source: netbase
Source-Version: 4.30
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
netbase, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
netbase_4.30.dsc
to pool/main/n/netbase/netbase_4.30.dsc
netbase_4.30.tar.gz
to pool/main/n/netbase/netbase_4.30.tar.gz
netbase_4.30_all.deb
to pool/main/n/netbase/netbase_4.30_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated netbase package)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:25:17 +0200
Source: netbase
Binary: netbase
Architecture: source all
Version: 4.30
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
netbase - Basic TCP/IP networking system
Closes: 87240 411926 427067 428598
Changes:
netbase (4.30) unstable; urgency=low
.
* On new installs add localhost as an alias for ::1. (Closes: #427067)
* Removed the obsolete debconf notes (all of them) and the dependency on
debconf. (Closes: #428598).
* Removed the dependencies on inet-superserver and ping. (Closes: #87240)
* Removed the obsolete conflicts with xinetd, netstd, nfs-common,
nfs-user-server, nis, rstatd, rwalld, rusersd, ugidd.
* Removed from the maintainers scripts code needed for upgrades from
packages released in the past century.
* etc-protocols: added udplite (136). (Closes: #411926)
Files:
f43a26ff2b1369798352df179b2b0dae 484 admin important netbase_4.30.dsc
34b0ac3a801d2030d9e2c0a62fb1fbd7 32565 admin important netbase_4.30.tar.gz
72d9ffebf51beab8ff9d0ca69d81faac 18020 admin important netbase_4.30_all.deb
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