[Bug 1825845] Re: traceroute6 is broken for ipv6

[Sebastien Bacher]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1798313 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798313

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1798313
   traceoute6 gives error sendto: Invalid argument

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Title:
  traceroute6 is broken for ipv6

Status in iputils package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  hitting this bug
  https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues/68

  
  adudek at ncs-playground-1:$ more /etc/lsb-release
  DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
  DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
  DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
  DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS"

  adudek at ncs-playground-1:~$ apt-cache policy iputils-tracepath
  iputils-tracepath:
    Installed: 3:20161105-1ubuntu2
    Candidate: 3:20161105-1ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 3:20161105-1ubuntu2 500
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  adudek at ncs-playground-1:~$

  adudek at ncs-playground-1:$ traceroute6 2003:xxxx:xxxx:ffff::2001
  traceroute to 2003:xxxx:xxxx:ffff::2001 (2003:xxxx:xxxx:ffff::2001)
  from 2003:x:x:x::xxxx, 30 hops max, 24 byte packets
  sendto: Invalid argument
   1 traceroute: wrote 2003:xxxx:xxxx:ffff::2001 24 chars, ret=-1
   *sendto: Invalid argument
  traceroute: wrote 2003:xxxx:xxxx:ffff::2001 24 chars, ret=-1
  adudek at ncs-playground-1:$ traceroute6 -V
  traceroute6 utility, iputils-s20161105

  This issue is fixed in s20180629 and later of iputils.

  This impacts everyone who is uses IPv6 and is not able to troubleshoot
  using traceroute because of this. There is no workaround for this
  except by installing a later version manually.

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