Resolv.rb and IPv6 nameservers

Ruby
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Hello folks,

UDPSocket requires address family given on initialization, so it’s not
possible to create an UDPSocket and then decide, to which hosts to
send packets to.

That’s a problem for Ruby’s resolver if you’ve got AF_INET6 nameservers
in your /etc/resolv.conf. The following very dirty hack chooses AF_INET6
for UDPSocket, if the nameserver’s address contains colons (:).

— /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/resolv.rb Mon Feb 7 16:24:09 2005
+++ resolv2.rb Sun Apr 23 20:53:17 2006
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@
super()
@host = host
@port = port

  •      @sock = UDPSocket.new

  •      @sock = UDPSocket.new(host.index(':') ? Socket::AF_INET6 :

Socket::AF_INET)
@sock.connect(host, port)
@sock.fcntl(Fcntl::F_SETFD, 1) if defined? Fcntl::F_SETFD
@id = -1

Any suggestions?

Stephan.

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On Apr 23, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Stephan M. wrote:

for UDPSocket, if the nameserver’s address contains colons (:).
@sock.connect(host, port)
@sock.fcntl(Fcntl::F_SETFD, 1) if defined? Fcntl::F_SETFD
@id = -1

Any suggestions?

Send this patch to ruby-core or the maintainer (I think Akira T.).

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