Standard Nagios Plugins 1.4.9 and IPv6 problem?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Frost, Mark {PBG} wrote:
> This was my original assertion.  It does open a socket with parameters
> for IPv6 (AF_INET6) and then tells the resolver to run the query.  There
> is no configuration in the resolver library itself or resolv.conf, etc,
> that says "hey, also send out IPv6 queries, would you?"
> 
> I guess the big problem I have here is what is necessary to convince an
> application that a system does not use IPv6?  That there's no interface
> configured to use IPv6? (check)  That there's no routing or other
> networking setup at boot time to enable it? (check)  I feel that I'm an
> unfortunate victim of Linux just throws IPv6 include files into its base
> configuration whether I want them or not so the plugins assume that they
> might as well try it.  There's no package I can uninstall to remove
> Linux's knowledge of IPv6 and it's protocols.  I'm stuck with it.
> 

Patching it with a module would be the simplest thing ever though. :)

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