[Bug 1798313] Re: traceoute6 gives error sendto: Invalid argument

[Calvin Cheng]

Yes I also ran into this same problem.

$ traceroute6 -n 2001:4860:4860::8888
traceroute to 2001:4860:4860::8888 (2001:4860:4860::8888) from 2003:XXXXXX, 30 hops max, 24 byte packets
sendto: Invalid argument
 1 traceroute: wrote 2001:4860:4860::8888 24 chars, ret=-1
 *sendto: Invalid argument
traceroute: wrote 2001:4860:4860::8888 24 chars, ret=-1
 *sendto: Invalid argument

$ traceroute6 -V
traceroute6 utility, iputils-s20161105

$ lsb_release  -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic

$ dpkg-query -s iputils-tracepath
Package: iputils-tracepath
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net

Installed-Size: 76
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Source: iputils
Version: 3:20161105-1ubuntu2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libidn11 (>= 1.13)
Suggests: traceroute
Description: Tools to trace the network path to a remote host
 The tracepath utility is similar to the traceroute utility, but also
 attempts to discover the MTU of the path. Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Original-Maintainer: Noah Meyerhans <noahm at debian.org>

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Title:
  traceoute6 gives error sendto: Invalid argument

Status in Iputils:
  Fix Released
Status in iputils package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in iputils package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When running the following command all get is an error. (traceroute6.db works)
  # traceroute6.iputils 2001:4860:4860::8888
  traceroute to 2001:4860:4860::8888 (2001:4860:4860::8888) from 2a00:8780:3:42:b92a:b222:8bed:4a9b, 30 hops max, 24 byte packets
  sendto: Invalid argument
   1 traceroute: wrote 2001:4860:4860::8888 24 chars, ret=-1
   *sendto: Invalid argument
  traceroute: wrote 2001:4860:4860::8888 24 chars, ret=-1
   *sendto: Invalid argument
  traceroute: wrote 2001:4860:4860::8888 24 chars, ret=-1
   *

  This seems like a regression of Debian bug https://bugs.debian.org
  /cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843264

  Package version installed:
  iputils-tracepath 3:20161105-1ubuntu2 amd64

  # lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
  Release:	18.04
  Codename:	bionic

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