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Diffstat (limited to 'methods/connect.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | methods/connect.cc | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 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) |