On Thu, 2022-02-03 at 23:38 +0100, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On 2022-02-03 22:31, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > > Is it really possible that Socket6::gethostbyname2 is not implemented > > on a modern and recent distro such as Fedora? > > yes
Well, it seems that the gethostbyname*() interfaces are actually obsolete and as such we should not be surprised to see them start to disappear. https://linux.die.net/man/3/gethostbyname2: The gethostbyname*() and gethostbyaddr*() functions are obsolete. Applications should use getaddrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3) instead. The glibc manpage for gethostbyname2 says the same thing: $ man gethostbyname2 ... DESCRIPTION The gethostbyname*(), gethostbyaddr*(), herror(), and hstrerror() functions are obsolete. Applications should use getaddrinfo(3), getnameinfo(3), and gai_str‐ error(3) instead. > reported to fedore maintainer ?, its not a shorewall bug Well, it is, in that shorewall is using obsoleted interfaces. The perl package maintainer at RedHat offered up the following patch which works here: --- /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Shorewall/IPAddrs.pm.orig 2021-11-05 11:03:22.000000000 +0000 +++ /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Shorewall/IPAddrs.pm 2022-02-06 13:28:43.045058966 +0000 @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ sub validate_6address( $$ ) { unless ( valid_6address $addr ) { fatal_error "Invalid IPv6 Address ($addr)" unless $allow_name; require Socket6; - fatal_error "Unknown Host ($addr)" unless (@addrs = Socket6::gethostbyname2( $addr, Socket6::AF_INET6())); + fatal_error "Unknown Host ($addr)" unless (@addrs = Socket6::getaddrinfo( $addr, 0, Socket6::AF_INET6())); if ( defined wantarray ) { shift @addrs for (1..4); @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ sub resolve_6dnsname( $ ) { my @addrs; require Socket6; - fatal_error "Unknown Host ($net)" unless (@addrs = Socket6::gethostbyname2( $net, Socket6::AF_INET6())); + fatal_error "Unknown Host ($net)" unless (@addrs = Socket6::getaddrinfo( $net, 0, Socket6::AF_INET6())); shift @addrs for (1..4); for ( @addrs ) { Cheers, b. _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
