Hi, I am new in the OpenJDK Community and I contribute with a fix for the bug 8200719 related to networking in macOS system.
I wrote a minimal patch that only set the scope id when the address is link-local or multicast. This change avoid send IPv6 packets on a wrong interface. Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200719 Patch: diff -r f088ec60bed5 src/java.base/unix/native/libnet/net_util_md.c --- a/src/java.base/unix/native/libnet/net_util_md.c Mon Apr 09 10:39:29 2018 -0700 +++ b/src/java.base/unix/native/libnet/net_util_md.c Mon Apr 09 16:50:18 2018 -0500 @@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ } int defaultIndex; struct sockaddr_in6 *sin6 = (struct sockaddr_in6 *)him; - if (sin6->sin6_family == AF_INET6 && (sin6->sin6_scope_id == 0)) { + if (sin6->sin6_family == AF_INET6 && (sin6->sin6_scope_id == 0) && + (IN6_IS_ADDR_LINKLOCAL(&sin6->sin6_addr) || IN6_IS_ADDR_MULTICAST(&sin6->sin6_addr))) { defaultIndex = (*env)->GetStaticIntField(env, ni_class, ni_defaultIndexID); sin6->sin6_scope_id = defaultIndex; Thanks, Joel