getent implicitly passes AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo by default.
Use --no-addrconfig to suppress that, so that both IPv4 and IPv6
lookups succeed even if the address family is not supported by the
host.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
{
int ret;
- /* Run getent to fetch the IPv4 address for host test4.
- This forces /etc/hosts to be parsed. */
- ret = system("getent ahostsv4 test4");
+ /* Run getent to fetch the IPv4 address for host test4. This forces
+ /etc/hosts to be parsed. Use --no-addrconfig to return addresses
+ even in an IPv6-only environment. */
+ ret = system("getent --no-addrconfig ahostsv4 test4");
if (ret != 0)
FAIL_EXIT1("ahostsv4 failed");
/* Likewise for IPv6. */
- ret = system("getent ahostsv6 test6");
+ ret = system("getent --no-addrconfig ahostsv6 test6");
if (ret != 0)
FAIL_EXIT1("ahostsv6 failed");