Your message dated Thu, 4 Jul 2019 23:05:16 -0700 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line resolving old bug has caused the Debian Bug report #863824, regarding iputils-tracepath: traceroute6.iputils fails with IPv6 address to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: iputils-tracepath Version: 3:20161105-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, It seems that traceroute6.iputils fails to work when given an address instead of a hostname: $ traceroute6.iputils localhost traceroute to (::1) from ::1, 30 hops max, 24 byte packets 1 localhost (::1) 0.052 ms 0.021 ms 0.022 ms $ traceroute6.iputils ::1 traceroute to ::1 (::1) from ::1, 30 hops max, 24 byte packets sendto: Invalid argument 1 traceroute: wrote ::1 24 chars, ret=-1 *sendto: Invalid argument traceroute: wrote ::1 24 chars, ret=-1 *sendto: Invalid argument traceroute: wrote ::1 24 chars, ret=-1 * sendto: Invalid argument 2 traceroute: wrote ::1 24 chars, ret=-1 *sendto: Invalid argument traceroute: wrote ::1 24 chars, ret=-1 The differance in sendto seems to be the port number 33434 vs 0: # strace traceroute6.iputils localhost sendto(4, "\0\0\1\253\0\0\0\3\334\327.Y\0\0\0\0e\177\2\0\0\0\0\0", 24, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(33434), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::1", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=htonl(0), sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = 24 # strace traceroute6.iputils ::1 sendto(4, "\0\0\1\232\0\0\0\3\227\327.Y\0\0\0\0\202\237\7\0\0\0\0\0", 24, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(0), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::1", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=htonl(0), sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages iputils-tracepath depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11 ii libcap2 1:2.25-1 ii libidn11 1.33-1 iputils-tracepath recommends no packages. Versions of packages iputils-tracepath suggests: ii traceroute 1:2.1.0-2 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---This was fixed a while back, with version 3:20180629-1. Updating its status accordingly.
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