Bug#612582: netstat: misleading info on dual stack hosts for sockets without IPV6_V6ONLY

[Alexandre Rossi]

Package: net-tools
Version: 1.60-23
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream ipv6

Hi,

The information reported by netstat can be misleading on a dual-stacked host
(ipv4 and ipv6) whith a socket not using IPV6_V6ONLY.

For instance, my box is running apache which is happily handling ipv4 traffic,
but :
$ netstat -nl4 | grep ':80'
$ netstat -nl | grep ':80'
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN
$

This is a problem because one may rely on this output to restrict services to
a particular protocol.

Proposed fixes :
- netstat -nl4 should list ipv6 sockets not using IPV6_V6ONLY.
- ipv6 sockets not using IPV6_V6ONLY should be differenciated in the output of
  netstat.

I'll be glad to provide more info, try to implement a fix if my solutions are
acceptable, and to test a fixed version.

Alex

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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ii  libc6                         2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

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