Bad arg length for Socket::inet_ntoa, length is 16, should be 4 at /usr/share/perl5/HTTP/Daemon.pm line 51

[Jeffrey Walton]

Hi Everyone,

I'm building Wget 1.20.3 from sources on Ubuntu 18.04.5, x86_64, fully patched. Wget is failing 6 self tests. All of the failures are due to a broken Perl. Here is an example:

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Bad arg length for Socket::inet_ntoa, length is 16, should be 4 at /usr/share/perl5/HTTP/Daemon.pm line 51.
No data received.
Closed 3/SSL 0x0000623000000100
Retrying.

This is apparently a well known problem in HTTP::Daemon. It appears IO::Socket::INET does not support IPv6:

* https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=71395
* https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=91699
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413065

I filed the report against libhttp-daemon-perl, but that may be wrong. I also see there is a libhttp-daemon-ssl-perl. Other package names include perl-HTTP-Daemon.

Please pick up the fix for "Bad arg length for Socket::inet_ntoa".

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$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic

$ apt-cache show libhttp-daemon-perl
Package: libhttp-daemon-perl
Architecture: all
Version: 6.01-1
Priority: optional
Section: perl
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <email address hidden>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
...

$ apt-cache show libhttp-daemon-ssl-perl
Package: libhttp-daemon-ssl-perl
Architecture: all
Version: 1.05-01-1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/perl
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <email address hidden>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
...

[Jeffrey Walton (noloader)]

It looks like Debian has cleared this problem. Testing on Debian 10.5 does not show the error.

Here is Debian's libhttp-daemon-perl package info:

$ apt-cache show libhttp-daemon-perl
Package: libhttp-daemon-perl
Version: 6.01-3
Installed-Size: 44
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Replaces: libwww-perl (<< 6.00)
Depends: perl, libhttp-date-perl, libhttp-message-perl, libio-socket-ip-perl, liblwp-mediatypes-perl
Breaks: libhttp-proxy-perl (<< 0.304-4), librpc-xml-perl (<< 0.80-2), libwww-mechanize-perl (<< 1.91-2), libwww-perl (<< 6.00)
...

I don't believe there is anything to report upstream.

[Jeffrey Walton (noloader)]

This may also be helpful from Red Hat https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0665:

* BZ - 1413065 - HTTP-Daemon does not support IPv6: Arg length for inet_ntoa
* BZ - 1492760 - IO::Socket::IP->new() fails to listen on unspecified local address

[Jeffrey Walton (noloader)]

Ping...

[TJ (tj)]

Looking at the Debian changelog looks like both Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 needs at least 6.01-2 whereas it has 6.01-1. Ubuntu 20.10 has 6.12-1:

libhttp-daemon-perl (6.01-2) unstable; urgency=medium

...
  [ Fabian Grünbichler ]
  * switch to IO::Socket::IP to add IPv6 support (Closes: #667738)

  [ gregor herrmann ]
  * Add (build) dependency on libio-socket-ip-perl.
  * Mark package as autopkgtest-able.
  * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.3.0.
  * Bump debhelper compatibility level to 11.
  * Add /me to Uploaders.

 -- gregor herrmann <email address hidden> Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:45:03 +0100

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Fix released in focal and up.