[Bug 379621] [NEW] inetd fails to listen on IPv4 addresses

[Paul Gear]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: inetutils-inetd

On upgrade from intrepid to jaunty, my scanner stopped being accessible over the network, when i looked to find out why, i saw that saned was enabled, yet connections were being refused on port 6566.  Checking netstat -pln, i found that inetd was only listening on IPv6:
 tcp6       0      0 :::6566                 :::*                    LISTEN      29652/inetutils-ine

Here is the saned configuration line:
sane-port stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/saned saned

The documentation at
http://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/html_section/Configuration-
file.html says, "If IPv6 support is enabled the sockets will accept both
IPv4 and IPv6 connections if that is supported by the OS."  However, the
only way i could get it to listen on IPv4 was to change tcp to tcp4 in
inetd.conf.  This seems wrong.

An unrelated issue is: i have never explicitly requested inetutils-inetd
to be installed.  It seems that both openbsd-inetd and xinetd are in
main, whereas inetutils-inetd is in universe.  I would be perfectly
happy to run the preferred version of inetd (whatever that is) - i
suspect there might be a bug relating to this either in the installer,
or the saned package.

** Affects: inetutils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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inetd fails to listen on IPv4 addresses
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379621
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