42650 – hostname(1) won't return FQDN on hosts with only AAAA record

Bug 42650 - hostname(1) won't return FQDN on hosts with only AAAA record

Summary: hostname(1) won't return FQDN on hosts with only AAAA record

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2004-02-23 13:29 UTC by pasi.valminen
Modified:	2005-02-11 19:18 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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hostname(1) ipv6 support patch (hostname.diff,2.61 KB, application/octet-stream) 2004-02-23 13:33 UTC, pasi.valminen	Details
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Description pasi.valminen 2004-02-23 13:29:54 UTC

hostname(1) in the net-tools package does not return FQDN with the -f switch if the host has only AAAA record and no A record/IPv4 address.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge net-tools
2. set the hostname to one that has _only_ an IPv6 address
3. `hostname -f' fails

Actual Results:  
# hostname -f
hostname: No address associated with name

Expected Results:  
It should have printed the FQDN.

Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X acpi alsa avi crypt dvd encode foomaticdb gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib
ipv6 java jpeg libg++ mad maildir mmx mpeg ncurses nocardbus oggvorbis opengl
pam pdflib perl plotutils png postgres quicktime readline sasl sdl sse ssl svga
tcpd tetex truetype usb wmf x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Comment 1 pasi.valminen 2004-02-23 13:33:48 UTC

Created attachment 26197 [details]
hostname(1) ipv6 support patch

It's a patch against hostname.c in net-tools-1.60. Compile with -DIPV6 to use
it.

Comment 2 pasi.valminen 2004-02-23 13:35:26 UTC

I mailed the patch to the net-tools maintainers about a month ago but haven't heard anything since. Seems the package hasn't been maintained for a while.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-03 02:27:09 UTC

i assume this is still an issue with 1.60-r9 ?

if so, please re-make the diff with `diff -u` and i'll get it added for 1.60-r10

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-02-11 19:18:47 UTC

cleaned up and added to net-tools-1.60-r11