From ab889004b8972258a87798133451f99dfce21823 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:41:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 7/8] Ignore IPv6 link-local addresses Returning IPv6 link-local addresses is a bad idea, because they only work if an application connects specifically over the corresponding interface. So you get errors like: $ curl -6 http://my-machine/ curl: (7) Failed to connect to fe80::d6be:d9ff:fe1b:8477: Invalid argument To prevent this, this patch filters out link-local addresses. So if you don't have a routable IPv6 address, nss-myhostname will fall back to returning ::1. --- src/nss-myhostname/netlink.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/nss-myhostname/netlink.c b/src/nss-myhostname/netlink.c index 53c3b50..621ca1d 100644 --- a/src/nss-myhostname/netlink.c +++ b/src/nss-myhostname/netlink.c @@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ int ifconf_acquire_addresses(struct address **_list, unsigned *_n_list) { ifaddrmsg->ifa_scope == RT_SCOPE_NOWHERE) continue; + if (ifaddrmsg->ifa_family == AF_INET6 && + ifaddrmsg->ifa_scope == RT_SCOPE_LINK) + continue; + if (ifaddrmsg->ifa_flags & IFA_F_DEPRECATED) continue; -- 1.8.1