Re: Bug#584301: nmap broken with resolver setting 'options inet6'.

[Fyodor <fyodor@insecure.org>]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 08:13:48PM +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> 
> The culprit acts in
> 
>      TargetGroup.cc   lines 214 -- 237.
> 
> The code does not seem easily maintainable, so I can offer no quick
> resolution. Let me just remark that the easiest testing can be done
> using the call
> 
>     $ RES_OPTIONS=inet6  nmap -v -p 22 ipv6.google.com
> 
> This avoids the insertion of 'options inet6' in '/etc/resolv.conf'.

Thanks for the further details and debugging.  I have forwarded your
report to the nmap-dev mailing list in the hope someone will pick it
up: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q2/787.

Cheers,
Fyodor