IPv6 with perl on windows not working - windows

Question

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(Possible duplicate of perl windows IPv6 )
I tried following sample example from : https://metacpan.org/module/IO::Socket::IP
use IO::Socket::IP -register;
my $sock = IO::Socket->new(
Domain => PF_INET6,
LocalHost => "::1",
Listen => 1,
) or die "Cannot create socket - $#\n";
print "Created a socket of type " . ref($sock) . "\n";
It is giving output as :
Cannot create socket - no address associated with nodename
I am using ActiveState perl 5.14.2 and have built IO::Socket::IP module on it.
Following is the ping result:
c:\>ping ::1
Pinging ::1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Ping statistics for ::1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
If I use the IPv4 style loopback address 127.0.0.1, the above code works well.
I am wondering what I am missing.
Update:
I just cleaned the perl setup and path, and freshly installed perl 5.14.2 from
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads
and then I tried following simple code:
use strict;
use warnings;
use Socket qw(getaddrinfo SOCK_STREAM AI_PASSIVE );
my ( $err, #res ) = getaddrinfo( "::", 8086, {
socktype => SOCK_STREAM,
flags => AI_PASSIVE,
} );
die $err if $err;
it ended with following error:
no address associated with nodename at c:\IPv6.pl line 10.
But with 127.0.0.1 it returns proper value.
I am using windows 2008 R2 box, a same run on my another windows box also fails.
I just tried to trace this call in Socket.pm, and found that a "fake_getaddrinfo" is getting called instead of the real getaddrinfo. It seems the XSLoader was either not able to find/load getaddrinfo from Socket.dll or Socket.dll didn't at all have the getaddrinfo.
What could be the reason?
A similar code below using Socket6 works properly on the same setup:
use Socket;
use Socket6;
#res = getaddrinfo('::', 8086, AF_UNSPEC, SOCK_STREAM);
while(scalar(#res)>=5){
($family, $socktype, $proto, $saddr, $canonname, #res) = #res;
($host, $port) = getnameinfo($saddr, NI_NUMERICHOST | NI_NUMERICSERV);
print ("\nhost= $host port = $port");
socket(Socket_Handle, $family, $socktype, $proto) || next;
bind(Socket_Handle,$saddr ) || die "bind: $!";
listen(Socket_Handle, 5) || die "listen: $!";
($host, $port) = getnameinfo($saddr, NI_NUMERICHOST | NI_NUMERICSERV);
print ("\nReady for connections \nhost= $host port = $port");
$paddr = accept(Client, Socket_Handle);
}
So I can't even blame the setup or the system dlls. Is there an issue with perl's built-in IPv6 support for windows' activestate build?

Answer 1

As stated by vinsworldcom on perlmonks.org, to make use of IPv6 sockets you do need to have the Socket6 module installed. As soon as you'd install this via cpan, the code snippet will work fine.