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Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c b/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c index c8965ef99d..855c5a5c06 100644 --- a/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c +++ b/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c @@ -1112,7 +1112,10 @@ get_scope (const struct sockaddr_in6 *in6) { if (! IN6_IS_ADDR_MULTICAST (&in6->sin6_addr)) { - if (IN6_IS_ADDR_LINKLOCAL (&in6->sin6_addr)) + if (IN6_IS_ADDR_LINKLOCAL (&in6->sin6_addr) + /* RFC 4291 2.5.3 says that the loopback address is to be + treated like a link-local address. */ + || IN6_IS_ADDR_LOOPBACK (&in6->sin6_addr)) scope = 2; else if (IN6_IS_ADDR_SITELOCAL (&in6->sin6_addr)) scope = 5; |