Re: Bug#264775: segfaults on hostnames that only have IPv6 addresses

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 06:35:48PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:

> > segfaults. Investigating the segfaults, we found that they seem to happen
> > when a user connects from a host that only has an AAAA and no A record
> > (possibly the mere existence of an AAAA record is enough to trigger the
> > bug).
> 
> You probably have to modify your IRCd to give out slightly changed
> connection notices -- which do not match upon the CONNREGEX -- when no
> IPv4 address is available.

What we did is to not pass ipv6 clients to bopm at all. Since there are not
many, this is an acceptable workaround.

However, I still think a segfault is a bug. A program shouldn't segfault
when it receives invalid data.

Best regards,

Andras

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