Bug#705900: check_ping fail if host do not have IPv6 address

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>]

On Sun, 12.05.13 08:02, Petter Reinholdtsen (pere@hungry.com) wrote:

> Joachim, perhaps time to use the patch I provided in the Debian
> package, while we wait for these lofty old wizards to fight out their
> world view dispute?

How about just spending some time to track down the *actual* issue and
then doing something? It shouldn't be too hard to figure out where the
scopeid is lost between nss-myhostname and ping6 on Debian?

It's usually a good idea to first understand the whole issue and then
fixing it at the right place before prematurely applying knowingly
incorrect patches that just tape over things?

> I fail to see the advantage of having libnss-myhostname, which is
> intended to make sure it is possible to look up the local host name
> and always get a working IP address, return an IPv6 address that can't
> be used to ping, connect or pass on.

Thanks for being so constructive.

Lennart

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