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

[Sebastien Bacher]

(the ppa build has been deleted since replaced by the SRU)

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Title:
  traceoute6 gives error sendto: Invalid argument

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

Bug description:
  * Impact
  Using IPv6 the routing command returns Invalid argument errors

  * Test case
  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

  * Regression potential
  Check that the command behave correclty on IPv4 and IP6 Ips

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  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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