busybox: disable PREFER_IPV4_ADDRESS

PREFER_IPV4_ADDRESS is broken on IPv6-only hosts, as it causes busybox
utilities (ping, traceroute, ntpd) to forcibly use the A record instead of
the AAAA record when resolving a DNS name.  This obviously fails when
there is no IPv4 connectivity.  Since IPv6-only hosts or routers will only
become more common over time, disable PREFER_IPV4_ADDRESS to support this
use-case.

As a side-effect, disabling PREFER_IPV4_ADDRESS changes the default
resolution behaviour of busybox utilities on dual-stack hosts.  Busybox
utilities now simply use the order given by getaddrinfo(), so they will
now prefer IPv6 addresses when resolving a name with both A and AAAA
records if there is IPv6 connectivity.  This is in line with RFC 6724.

PREFER_IPV4_ADDRESS was likely intended to work around naive
implementations of getaddrinfo() that could return AAAA records first,
even on an IPv4-only host.  But both musl (since 1.1.3) and glibc
correctly implement RFC 6724 for getaddrinfo() and check connectivity to
determine the correct order in which to return records.  On IPv4-only
hosts, getaddrinfo() will return A records first, so there is no need for
the PREFER_IPV4_ADDRESS hack.

See also: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12381

Fixes: FS#84
Fixes: FS#2608
References: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/4167
Signed-off-by: Alexander Traud <pabstraud@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Baptiste Jonglez <git@bitsofnetworks.org>

diff --git a/package/utils/busybox/Config-defaults.in b/package/utils/busybox/Config-defaults.in
index 04148df2675e2b06b3cc114054c244dc7732137d..168c73b24c61056d28e2d0c30fd52a6785a3227f 100644 (file)
--- a/package/utils/busybox/Config-defaults.in
+++ b/package/utils/busybox/Config-defaults.in
@@ -2192,7 +2192,7 @@ config BUSYBOX_DEFAULT_FEATURE_UNIX_LOCAL
        default n
 config BUSYBOX_DEFAULT_FEATURE_PREFER_IPV4_ADDRESS
        bool
-       default y
+       default n
 config BUSYBOX_DEFAULT_VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS
        bool
        default y