[Bug 1825845] [NEW] traceroute6 is broken for ipv6

[Aaron Dudek]

Public bug reported:

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.

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

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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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