[Bug 1288644] Re: invalid ipv6 nameserver in resolv.conf breaks resolver

[Andrew Beresford]

I've just tested this against the current utopic libc (2.19-4ubuntu1)
and the bug isn't reproducible. It does still exist in 14.04 though.

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Title:
  invalid ipv6 nameserver in resolv.conf breaks resolver

Status in “eglibc” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  If you have an IPv6 nameserver listed in /etc/resolv.conf and it does
  not respond to lookups, or is inaccessible for another reason, the
  resolver will not check subsequent IPv4 entries.

  You can test this by adding an unresponsive IPv6 nameserver to your
  /etc/resolv.conf. In this example I've picked on 2001::1.

  nameserver 2001::1
  nameserver 8.8.8.8

  And do;

   getent hosts www.google.com

  You will get no response. The behaviour will change slightly dependent
  on whether your machine has a route for IPv6 traffic or not. If not,
  it will return immediately, if it does, it will return after the
  normal timeout for a DNS server.

  Removing the unavailable IPv6 server works around the problem and
  allows the machine to talk to the IPv4 nameservers as normal.

  I've tested this on saucy and tahr, identical behaviour on both.
  2.18-0ubuntu7 and 2.19-0ubuntu2 on tahr and 2.17-93ubuntu4 on saucy.

  == BONUS FEATURE ==

  If you encode the IPv4 address in IPv6 notation, everything works!

  Use the following in /etc/resolv.conf:

  nameserver 2001::1
  nameserver 0:0:0:0:0:ffff:808:808

  which is logically identical to the entry above, and everything works
  as expected.

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