Re: OS X Lion and IPv6

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:33:04AM +0100, Patrik Karlsson wrote:
> The second problem occurs when scanning "external" IPv6 addresses. What
> happens is that I can't scan these addresses as root (this works for
> link-local addresses though).
> The error message I'm seeing is (nexthost: failed to determine route to
> <ipv6 addr>). It's possible to scan the same IPv6 address as a non
> privileged user but as root it always fails. I've tried adding a zone index
> or specifying the interface with -e or forcing a TCP scan rather than a SYN
> scan, but the scan always fails with the same message.

There's a change this is fixed in r28340, which changed the routing loop
for BSD. Please try it. Also, see if you can get an --iflist both before
and after this revision and see if there are any important differences.

David Fifield
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