Re: net 2.6.16-rc1: multiple ipv6 failures

David S. Miller
2006-01-18T05:51:35Z

From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:39:20 -0500

> 2) bind fails (which everyone on my network immediately noticed, and
> complained about).
>
> > Jan 17 21:29:04 pretzel named[5110]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
> > Jan 17 21:29:04 pretzel named[5110]: /proc/net/if_inet6:sscanf() -> 1 (expected 6)
> > Jan 17 21:29:04 pretzel named[5110]: interfacemgr.c:827: unexpected error:
> > Jan 17 21:29:04 pretzel named[5110]: interface iteration failed: failure
> > Jan 17 21:29:04 pretzel named[5110]: not listening on any interfaces
> > Jan 17 21:29:04 pretzel named[5110]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
> > Jan 17 21:29:04 pretzel named[5110]: /proc/net/if_inet6:sscanf() -> 1 (expected 6)
> > Jan 17 21:29:04 pretzel named[5110]: interfacemgr.c:827: unexpected error:
> > Jan 17 21:29:04 pretzel named[5110]: interface iteration failed: failure

Known problem, fixed by Yoshifuji in current GIT. /proc/net/if_net6's
output format got mistakedly changed, and this confused named and
ifconfig, among other things.