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-rw-r--r--methods/connect.cc7
-rw-r--r--test/integration/framework1
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/methods/connect.cc b/methods/connect.cc
index 171622fa5..b4cd17ca8 100644
--- a/methods/connect.cc
+++ b/methods/connect.cc
@@ -164,7 +164,12 @@ static bool ConnectToHostname(std::string const &Host, int const Port,
struct addrinfo Hints;
memset(&Hints,0,sizeof(Hints));
Hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
- Hints.ai_flags = AI_ADDRCONFIG;
+ Hints.ai_flags = 0;
+ // see getaddrinfo(3): only return address if system has such a address configured
+ // useful if system is ipv4 only, to not get ipv6, but that fails if the system has
+ // no address configured: e.g. offline and trying to connect to localhost.
+ if (_config->FindB("Acquire::Connect::AddrConfig", true) == true)
+ Hints.ai_flags |= AI_ADDRCONFIG;
Hints.ai_protocol = 0;
if(_config->FindB("Acquire::ForceIPv4", false) == true)
diff --git a/test/integration/framework b/test/integration/framework
index 04f54c8e2..f1e2fa090 100644
--- a/test/integration/framework
+++ b/test/integration/framework
@@ -377,6 +377,7 @@ EOF
fi
echo "Acquire::https::CaInfo \"${TMPWORKINGDIRECTORY}/rootdir/etc/webserver.pem\";" > rootdir/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99https
echo "Apt::Cmd::Disable-Script-Warning \"1\";" > rootdir/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/apt-binary
+ echo 'Acquire::Connect::AddrConfig "false";' > rootdir/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/connect-addrconfig
configcompression '.' 'gz' #'bz2' 'lzma' 'xz'
confighashes 'SHA1' # these are tests, not security best-practices