[avahi] getaddrinfo() access to avahi problem

[Patrick Oppenlander]

>
> Hi Lennart, thanks for the response, I believe the problem is the 
> invocation of getaddrinfo or something inside it.
>
> In the Samba source code the file source/libsmb/namequery.c invokes 
> getaddrinfo as follows:
>
>        ret = getaddrinfo(name, NULL, &hints, &ailist);
>
>
Are you using Ubuntu for your testing? They are still applying a really 
stupid patch which completely breaks link local IPV6 lookup unless you 
have a routable IPV6 address configured.

It has been fixed in the past but is broken again now.

See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/374674

-Patrick