Bug#164768: libc: IPv6 still not correct.
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:50:10PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> [Please preserve the X-Debbugs-CC line]
> Ben Collins writes:
>
> > And as I've said in the past numerous times. The fact that every other
> > IPv6 using program (including apache, bind, telnet, etc.) get this
> > right, and sshd doesn't, isn't libc's fault.
> >
> > I've pushed this over to sshd, and we wont accept the error here.
>
> ssh is using getpeername() in accordance with the manual. The
> structure that getpeername() returns is causing gatenameinfo() to
> barf. That seems to me to be unambiguously a bug.
Only because kernel 2.2 is broken, not becuase glibc is. The reason is
because kernel 2.2 uses an old obsolete api.
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