[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#809397: Bug#809397: openssl: IPv6-capable s_client and s_server

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:09:10AM +0100, Thomas Bader wrote:
> Followup-For: Bug #589520
> Package: openssl
> Version: 1.0.1k-3+deb8u2
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Bug still exists in Debian Jessie, at least with s_client (haven't tried
> s_server):
> 
> - using s_client with a DNS name that returns only an AAAA record fails
>   with "gethostbyname failure"
> - using s_client with "[ipv6-address]:portnumber" addressing schema
>   fails with "gethostbyname failure" as well
> 
> Please consider assigning a higher severity to this bug. It's not just a
> "wishlist" thingy. It's quite annoying if you are in an IPv6-only
> network, where IPv4 is not available. 

This will not get solved in the 1.0.1 or 1.0.2 release.  But it
will be part of the 1.1 release.


Kurt