72077 - failure to resolve either ipv6 hostname or ipv6 address

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[steve ayer]

according to chris blizzard ([e-mail]), this is a bug.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Could you please provide some more information?

1)  What's an example of an actual address we fail to resolve?
2)  If it's a hostname, does that hostname have a IPv4 address associated with
it as well?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comments from reporter:

1) an entry in /etc/hosts, thus:

::1 localhost6

actually, there's another:

fec0::1234   ayerlaptop  

this one is the localhost's site-local address.  btw, we have talked to
this machine using telnet and ping using these ipv6 hostname mappings.

2) no, when we place an ipv4 address in the hosts table, then it
works.  but that's not what this bug is about!

thanks for your help,
steve ayer

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Perhaps I wasn't clear.  What are you typing in the browser's location bar?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comments from reporter in email:

whether i type localhost6 or ::1, ayerlaptop or fec0::1234 in the location
bar, it bombs as described earlier.

this means that it can't handle an ipv6 address, or map an ipv6 address
listed in /etc/hosts.

so, in summary, the following locations, valid ipv6 addresses all to this
machine, fail:

http://::1
http://localhost6
http://ayerlaptop
http://fec0::1234

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

http://::1 and http://fec0::1234 are invalid.  According to RFC 2732 (Format for
Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's), those should be written as:

http://[::1] and http://[fec0::1234]

Could you let us know whether this fixes your problem with the literal IPs? 
Also, if you would not mind, could you attach a complete copy of your /etc/hosts
file?

Thanks for you patience.

Comment 6

[steve ayer]

no, encapsulating ipv6 literal addresses in [] does not work.

as for the entire /etc/hosts, the entire contents that are currently uncommented
are listed below, but for your edification:

127.0.0.1  localhost

::1  localhost6
fec0::1234 ayerlaptop

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Marking new, since presumably Steven has tested that IPv6 is properly enabled in
the kernel and works in other applications that are IPv6-aware.

Comment 8

[benc]

Relieving tever of IPv6 related QA.

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 10

[carljohan]

Using Mozilla-1.0 under linux I can get this URL to work:

http://[3ffe:b00:c18:1::10]/

The hompage is downloaded using IPv6 over the 6bone.

Comment 11

[Peter Haight]

I've tried all this on my machine and I think that if this was a problem it has
been fixed. If [e-mail] is still having this problem with 1.0, let
me know and I'll check it out.