Subj : ipv6 address bug (?)
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Oli
Date : Thu Sep 16 2021 11:02 am

Hello Michiel,

Michiel wrote (2021-09-16):

 Ol>> Looks like binkd has problems parsing some IPv6 addresses
 Ol>> correctly:

 Ol>> + 15 Sep 19:41:40 [5273] call to 2000:1/1@fakenet
 Ol>>   15 Sep 19:46:48 [5290] trying fd12:3456::1 [fd12:3456::1]...
 Ol>> ? 15 Sep 19:46:48 [5290] connection to 2000:1/1@fakenet failed:
 Ol>> Invalid argument

 MvdV> Here I have no problem with ULA addresses:

 MvdV> + 11:15 [3380] call to 2:280/5555@fidonet
 MvdV>    11:15 [3380] trying fd51:550:40b9:0:f1d0:2:280:5555
 MvdV>                 [fd51:550:40b9:0:f1d0:2:280:5555]...
 MvdV>    11:15 [3380] connected
 MvdV> + 11:15 [3380] outgoing session with fd51:550:40b9:0:f1d0:2:280:5555:24554

 MvdV> Note: I have the literal address in the config, no DNS incolved. So the
 MvdV> problem may be in the DNS server.

I also use the literal IPv6 address. I just tried it on another machine with 64-bit Linux and I cannot reproduce the problem there. Interesting. Maybe specific to 32-bit (or armv7 / Raspberry)?

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