Bug#521415: [mtr] DNS lookups broken with GUI and IPv6

2012-12-15 Thread Kristof Provost
The bug is still present in mtr 0.82. The fundamental problem is that mtr does name to struct hostent translations in two places in the code. The first is only executed at startup and correctly uses getaddrinfo(). The second, dns_forward() is called from the gtk code, but uses gethostbyname(), whi

Bug#521415: [mtr] DNS lookups broken with GUI and IPv6

2009-03-27 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
Package: mtr Version: 0.75-2 Severity: minor --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I just discovered that mtr has some problems with IPv6 enabled hosts when using the GUI. Try the following: 1) enter "mtr ipv6-host" in shell -> works 2) enter then an IPv4 only host Hostname input line