Standard Nagios Plugins 1.4.9 and IPv6 problem?

[Holger Weiss]

* Holger Weiss <holger at CIS.FU-Berlin.DE> [2007-09-21 18:11]:
> * "Frost, Mark {PBG}" <mark.frost1 at pepsi.com> [2007-09-21 11:14]:
> > I guess the big problem I have here is what is necessary to convince an
> > application that a system does not use IPv6?  That there's no interface
> > configured to use IPv6? (check)  That there's no routing or other
> > networking setup at boot time to enable it? (check)  I feel that I'm an
> > unfortunate victim of Linux just throws IPv6 include files into its base
> > configuration whether I want them or not so the plugins assume that they
> > might as well try it.
>
> As I said, the plugins don't actually "decide" to try IPv6 DNS lookups,
> they just call the system's getaddrinfo(3) function without explicitly
> stating that the function should only try IPv4 address lookups.  The
> latter could be done and I'll implement that behaviour for "./configure
> --without-ipv6".

This change is now committed and will be in the next release.

Holger

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