Bug#1027778: inetutils-ping: ICMPv6 Destination unreachable Unknown code 6

[Marco Moock]

Package: inetutils-ping
Version: 2:2.4-1
Severity: normal
Tags: ipv6 upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: mo...@posteo.de

Dear Maintainer,

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Sending ICMPv6 echo request to an address where the router replies with ICMPv6 destination unreachable - Reject route to destination. That is Type 1 code 6.
Defined in RFC4443: ftp://rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4443.html
The message is:

m@ryz:~$ ping6 fd00:acd::4 -c 1
PING fd00:acd::4 (fd00:acd::4): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from fd00:abcd::1: Destination unreachable: Unknown code 6
--- fd00:acd::4 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
m@ryz:~$

This should be a proper message like "Route to destination rejected by <IP from router>".




-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages inetutils-ping depends on:
ii libc6 2.36-7
ii netbase 6.4

inetutils-ping recommends no packages.

inetutils-ping suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Enrik Berkhan]

Hi,

thanks for fixing this in the Debian package.

You might consider my (basically identical) upstream patch:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=c2cfa7889c09b6bd1ef7bc9967111e6509e610c7

Cheers,
Enrik

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

Sorry, I guess the pending bug notification was confusing. I had
written the patch, then noticed yours upstream and replaced it with
commit:

https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/commit/?id=bc000d86eafd41abb1014b7cfa4be03b84554509

So the uploaded version already contains your patch (sans the NEWS
entry as that was conflicting). :)

Thanks,
Guillem

[Enrik Berkhan]

Hi Guillem,

Am 2023-01-18 12:22, schrieb Guillem Jover:
> Sorry, I guess the pending bug notification was confusing. I had
> written the patch, then noticed yours upstream and replaced it with
> commit:

Ah, ok, never mind, my bad then; I didn't check the actual commits.

Thanks,
Enrik