PuTTY bug ipv6-scoped-addr

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summary: On Windows, IPv6 scoped addresses don't work
class: bug: This is clearly an actual problem we want fixed.
priority: low: We aren't sure whether to fix this or not.
present-in: 2005-10-14
fixed-in: 2006-12-24 r7007 (0.59) (0.60) (0.61) (0.62) (0.63) (0.64)

It's been reported that IPv6 scoped addresses (as defined in RFC4007), such as fe80::200:e2ff:fe65:9ce%4, don't work correctly on Windows XP Home + XP2. The error is "Network error: No route to host". SecureCRT does work, which suggests that we might just need to invoke getaddrinfo() differently. Scoped addresses work on Unix (NetBSD at least).

SGT, 2006-12-24: Jeroen Massar, the original author of PuTTY's IPv6 code, has supplied a patch which fixes this. Users experiencing this bug might like to download a post-r7007 snapshot and make sure the problem has gone away.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2006-12-26 23:08:27 +0000)