Bug#470289: libc6: getaddrinfo() with disabled ipv6

[André Wöbbeking <Woebbeking@web.de>]

On Monday 10 March 2008, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> forcemerge 435646 470289
> thanks
>
> André Wöbbeking a écrit :
> > On Monday 10 March 2008, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > This is from tcpdump -n port 53:
> >
> > 13:24:06.877009 IP 192.168.178.183.50438 > 192.168.178.1.53: 42587+
> > AAAA? www.heise.de. (30) 13:24:06.899561 IP 192.168.178.183.53666 >
> > 192.168.178.1.53: 34231+ A? www.heise.de. (30)
> >
> > The first query is ipv6, the second ipv4, right?
>
> I understand. It does ipv6 DNS query using IPv4 transport. That has
> nothing to do with disabling IPv6 in the kernel, that's why "alias
> net-pf-10 off" does nothing.
>
> If you router does not support that, it's a bug in your router,

I'm also trying to get my router fixed. Lets see what happens.

> not in the glibc,

Well, if it's not possible to create ipv6 connections why are ipv6 
queries sent?

> though I agree an option to disable IPv6 queries would be nice.

Yep.

> This has already been reported as bug#435646, merging the bugs.

Is there a way to get this "fixed" for Lenny? Otherwise KDE4 could be a 
unpleasant experience for "some" people as Qt4 uses getaddrinfo() with 
unspecified protocol.