Ticket #94 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

Inetutils telnet binary fails on amd64

Reported by: jeremy Assigned to: clfs-commits@lists.cross-lfs.org.
Priority: blocker Milestone: CLFS Standard 1.0.0
Component: BOOK Version: CLFS Standard 1.0.0
Keywords: Cc:

Description

on amd64 (at least multilib) the telnet binary from inetutils fails to do proper DNS resolution for all hosts:

jeremy@valkyrie:~$ telnet localhost Trying 255.255.255.255... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable

jeremy@valkyrie:~$ telnet www.google.com Trying 255.255.255.255... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable

ping and other netkit binaries work as expected.

This is a blocker for the 1.0.0 release - Ryan might have a patch, which I'm testing shortly

Attachments

inetutils-1.4.2-telnet_fix-1.patch (0.8 kB) - added by jeremy on 09/08/06 08:59:53.
Interim Patch to fix this issue

Change History

09/08/06 08:59:53 changed by jeremy

  • attachment inetutils-1.4.2-telnet_fix-1.patch added.

Interim Patch to fix this issue

09/08/06 09:01:33 changed by jeremy

Problem initially reported on IRC by Vladimir Vainer (ferreus). I verified on my own multilib build and the problem does exist.

09/08/06 09:27:03 changed by jeremy

A few more notes on this one. This bug has been known to exist by the maintainer since at least 1999:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/1999-06/msg00114.html

Also a reference to a discussion on the LFS lists:

http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2005-January/025824.html

This is confirmed to be a 64bit bug - I compiled inetutils as a 32-bit binary on my system, and telnet works as expected.

09/17/06 18:48:20 changed by jim

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

Fixed in r2605