On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 16:36:50 -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:06:03PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > For the avoidance of doubt, this is the same problem as reported in > > 82468[1] (which was closed "this ssh/libc bug is long since gone" > > without any fix being applied), but I can't re-open that bug since its > > archived. > > > > In the example code I posted with this report (and which appears in > > 82468), the struct sockaddr returned by getpeername is what > > getnameinfo barfs on. That code comes from ssh, which by default will > > use AF_UNSPEC in the ai_family of hints to getaddrinfo, for example. > > And as I've said in the past numerous times. The fact that every other > IPv6 using program (including apache, bind, telnet, etc.) get this > right, and sshd doesn't, isn't libc's fault.
apache doesn't use getnameinfo(). bind implements getnameinfo() itself. telnetd just logs an error if getnameinfo() fails and sets remote_host_name to the empty string. I'm not sure any of those are good parallels to sshd's use of libc: it merely uses a different subset of the IPv6 API. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
