#772587 mtr -4 does nothing

Package:
mtr
Source:
mtr
Description:
Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Submitter:
shirish शिरीष
Date:
2017-11-13 20:54:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#772587#5
Date:
2014-12-08 20:12:26 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,
I tried using mtr and came up empty. It says and I quote "Unable to
allocate IPv6 socket for nameserver communication: Address family not
supported by protocol"

I looked at the binary and it seems to be in /usr/bin as can be seen here :-

$ dpkg -L mtr | head
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/mtr

Looking forward for a fix.
#772587#10
Date:
2014-12-10 15:26:31 UTC
From:
To:
You need a kernel that has IPv6 support (even if you don't have it
configured) to use mtr.This is likely the same as bug #721792.
#772587#15
Date:
2017-11-13 20:51:16 UTC
From:
To:
Control: fixed -1 0.86-1

Confirmed to work fine on Stretch. According to an upstream commit this
has been fixed in 0.86

https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/commit/12c53f98e44598b87d3f2308e0d892f49d7af8e4

Bernhard