Is the IPv6 name resolution really working with the recent versions of
Ethereal?
I was trying to get IPv6 name resolution working with Solaris8 and
Linux and the only way to get it working was to manually add -DINET6
in CFLAGS in epan/Makefile. Solaris8 also required a small patch, more
about it later.
The interesting file in epan/ is resolv.c which contains conditional
code in a #ifdef INET6 block that calls gethostbyaddr(..., AF_INET6).
The January 22 dated sources I have on the disk do not have epan/
directory and resolv.c resides in the top level directory. To me it
looks like there is currently no method putting -DINET6 in
epan/Makefile even if the autodetection code in acinclude.m4 founds a
working IPv6 resolver. Is this so, or am I barking the wrong tree.
Anyway, the Solaris8 IPv6 enabling patch is below. It still requires
manually patching epan/Makefile to get -DINET6 -DSOLARIS8_INET6 in
CFLAGS. The resolv.c patch is a gross hack but it works.
Index: acinclude.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/ethereal/acinclude.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -r1.28 acinclude.m4
--- acinclude.m4 2001/07/09 23:42:39 1.28
+++ acinclude.m4 2001/07/12 16:34:36
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
v6lib=none
AC_MSG_CHECKING([ipv6 stack type])
- for i in v6d toshiba kame inria zeta linux linux-glibc; do
+ for i in v6d toshiba kame inria zeta linux linux-glibc solaris8; do
case $i in
v6d)
AC_EGREP_CPP(yes, [
@@ -171,6 +171,13 @@
#endif],
[v6type=$i; v6lib=inet6; CFLAGS="-DINET6 $CFLAGS"])
;;
+ solaris8)
+ if test "`uname -s`"="SunOS" && test "`uname -r`"="5.8"; then
+ v6type=$i
+ v6lib=inet6
+ [CFLAGS="-DINET6 -DSOLARIS8_INET6 $CFLAGS"]
+ fi
+ ;;
esac
if test "$v6type" != "unknown"; then
break
Index: epan/resolv.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/ethereal/epan/resolv.c,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 resolv.c
--- resolv.c 2001/06/07 22:07:02 1.11
+++ resolv.c 2001/07/12 16:34:37
@@ -1055,7 +1055,11 @@
#ifdef INET6
if (!(prefs.name_resolve & PREFS_RESOLV_NETWORK))
return ip6_to_str(addr);
+#ifdef SOLARIS8_INET6
+ if (IN6_IS_ADDR_LINKLOCAL((struct in6_addr*)addr) || IN6_IS_ADDR_MULTICAST((struct in6_addr*)addr))
+#else
if (IN6_IS_ADDR_LINKLOCAL(addr) || IN6_IS_ADDR_MULTICAST(addr))
+#endif
return ip6_to_str(addr);
#endif
--
Heikki Vatiainen * hessu@xxxxxxxxx
Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland
