Subject: Re: ipv6 for wget
To: Yokoyama, Atsushi <a.yokoyama@pobox.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/23/2005 18:15:48
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 09:27:30PM +0900, Yokoyama, Atsushi wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Does wget-1.9.1 work with --enable-ipv6 option on NetBSD?
> The option should be enabled by default?
> 
> Recently I've noticed that wget-1.9.1nb3 didn't work even
> for IPv4 HTTP acquisition.  My kernel is 1.6.2 and IPv6
> enabled.
> 
> > --20:50:24--  http://www.somewhere.net/foo.html
> >            => `foo.html'
> > Resolving www.somewhere.net... 1.2.3.4
> > Connecting to www.somewhere.net[1.2.3.4]:80... failed: Invalid > argument.
> > Retrying.
> 
> When I disabled it as '--disable-ipv6', the problem has gone.
> 
> With --enable-ipv6, I found that the following connect() in
> connect.c failed and errno became EINVAL (22).  The given
> ctx->addr seemed IPv4-mapped address.
> 
> > static void
> > connect_with_timeout_callback (void *arg)
> > {
> >   struct cwt_context *ctx = (struct cwt_context *)arg;
> >   ctx->result = connect (ctx->fd, ctx->addr, ctx->addrlen);
> > }
> > 
> > /* Like connect, but specifies a timeout.  If connecting takes longer
> >    than TIMEOUT seconds, -1 is returned and errno is set to
> >    ETIMEDOUT.  */
> 
> According to http://orange.kame.net/dev/cvsweb.cgi/kame/kame/kame/v6test/conf/transition-abuse.conf?rev=1.22,
> the current NetBSD kernel does not allow IPv4-mapped address
> by default.
> 
> Does the problem occur on my kernel configuration only?

No, it happens here too. I'll look for a fix.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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