[Bug 2051034] Removal of gethostbyname2 breaks Shorewall6

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051034



--- Comment #2 from Brian J. Murrell <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Paul Howarth from comment #1)
> Well, gethostbyname2 is obsolete so it would really be better to get
> shorewall not to use it.

I am more than happy to pass that along.  Do you have any reference that
indicates that it's obsolete so that they don't just have to take my word for
it?

> Can you try this change to /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Shorewall/IPAddrs.pm
> and see if it works for you?

It does, thanks!

> Also, it should be evident from this change that gethostbyname2 is only
> being called in a fatal error condition so your configuration probably
> wouldn't have worked anyway.

But it did in fact compile and load with no errors/failures once I made the
above change.

> Maybe you are using a hostname in your rules
> file that does not have an IPv6 address?

Seems not, per the above.


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