From e484f7f3dded5622dcc3b2a52c57643c22f521f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:44:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fixed resolving numerical IPv6 addresses in
 host_create_from_dns()

---
 src/libstrongswan/utils/host.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libstrongswan/utils/host.c b/src/libstrongswan/utils/host.c
index bc31f22e0..bc85942ef 100644
--- a/src/libstrongswan/utils/host.c
+++ b/src/libstrongswan/utils/host.c
@@ -461,6 +461,11 @@ host_t *host_create_from_dns(char *string, int af, u_int16_t port)
 	char buf[512];
 	int err, ret;
 	
+	if (strchr(string, ':'))
+	{	/* gethostbyname does not like IPv6 addresses, fallback */
+		return host_create_from_string(string, port);
+	}
+	
 	if (af)
 	{	
 		ret = gethostbyname2_r(string, af, &host, buf, sizeof(buf), &ptr, &err);