"cliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for the reply. I somewhat agree with you and will post a
> question to fedora but my concern is that curl also uses getaddrinfo
> and once I disabled IPv6, curl began working. It's as if wget is
> defaulting getaddrinfo's ai_family to PF_INET6 and never attempting
> PF_INET.
Wget sets ai_family to AF_UNSPEC and sorts the resulting addresses in
order to prefer IPv4 addresses (which can be changed using
--prefer-family). It won't set ai_family to a specific address unless
-4/-6 is used. You might want to check that /etc/wgetrc or a similar
file doesn't contain ipv4_only or ipv6_only.
If that checks out okay, try compiling this program on your system;
see if running it with the argument "www.yahoo.com" produces success
or failure, and if the failure is the same one as produced by Wget.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int err;
struct addrinfo hints, *res;
const char *host = argv[1];
if (argc != 2)
return 2;
memset (&hints, 0, sizeof hints);
hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
err = getaddrinfo (host, NULL, &hints, &res);
if (err != 0 || res == NULL)
printf ("failed resolving %s: %s.\n",
host, err != EAI_SYSTEM ? gai_strerror (err) : strerror (errno));
else
printf ("success\n");
return 0;
}
