Re: [iproute2] regression in ss output

[Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 09:57:37AM +0000, Humberto Alves wrote:
> Hi! With the last iproute2 release, ss command output does not 
> differentiate between any-address IPv4 sockets from the IPv6 ones.
> I don't know if this is an expected behaviour, but the old output looks 
> more useful. Below I pasted the difference between the old behaviour and 
> the new one.

Although the change is certainly intentional (it was introduced by
Stephen Hemminger as a side effect of aba9c23a6e1cb ("ss: enclose IPv6
address in brackets"), I second reverting to the old display of
in6addr_any as '::'.

> I am happy to send a patch if you want. Thanks

It should be enough to just getting rid of the

| if (!memcmp(a->data, &in6addr_any, sizeof(in6addr_any))) {

case in inet_addr_print(). The else-case which calls format_host()
should deal with in6addr_any just fine. This way the address also gets
enclosed in brackets which helps separating it from the ':port' part.

Cheers, Phil