On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 09:41:18PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 06:58:15PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > I have not had the tuits yet for looking at IO::Socket::IP properly. > > It seems to me that it could look at the address and pass AI_NUMERICHOST > > to getaddrinfo(3) if it looks like an IPv4 address. I guess matching > > against qr/^\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+$/ would suffice. > > Here's a first try at such a patch. Something like this might be > a better fix for #962047 in libio-socket-ip-perl than the test suite > change in 0.39-2. > > I've only tested that libio-socket-ip-perl and libtest-tcp-perl build > and work with this.
That patch was unfortunately buggy. I've since done further testing and filed #964902 about the wider issue with a hopefully better patch. So moving this discussion there. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org