[collectd] Ping plugin error when several source addresses and mixed IPv4 and IPv6

[Jarle Bjørgeengen]

Dear collected developers and users,

when I use the ping plugin configuration in the bottom of the e-mail I get some unexpected behaviour.

1) 

In syslog I get 
Nov 27 14:43:15 ibsen collectd[13914]: ping plugin: ping_host_add (11.255.3.1) failed: getaddrinfo: Address family for hostname not supported
Nov 27 14:43:15 ibsen collectd[13914]: ping plugin: ping_host_add (11.254.3.1) failed: getaddrinfo: Address family for hostname not supported
Nov 27 14:43:15 ibsen collectd[13914]: ping plugin: ping_host_add (11.255.1.1) failed: getaddrinfo: Address family for hostname not supported
Nov 27 14:43:15 ibsen collectd[13914]: ping plugin: ping_host_add (11.254.1.1) failed: getaddrinfo: Address family for hostname not supported
Nov 27 14:43:15 ibsen collectd[13914]: ping plugin: ping_host_add (11.255.3.1) failed: getaddrinfo: Address family for hostname not supported
Nov 27 14:43:15 ibsen collectd[13914]: ping plugin: ping_host_add (11.254.3.1) failed: getaddrinfo: Address family for hostname not supported
Nov 27 14:43:15 ibsen collectd[13914]: ping plugin: ping_host_add (11.255.1.1) failed: getaddrinfo: Address family for hostname not supported
Nov 27 14:43:15 ibsen collectd[13914]: ping plugin: ping_host_add (11.254.1.1) failed: getaddrinfo: Address family for hostname not supported

No data gets logged for IPv4 hosts. The IPv6 hosts get logged and no error-messages. 

If I remove the IPv6 hosts I get no error messages in syslog and data for al hosts get logged. 

2) 
In the output data there seems to be no separation between different source_addresses. 

I expected to get one metric for each source-destination combination. Is this not to be expected? Is there a way of  achieving it?

I would very much appreciate your input to this. Thank you. 

ping.conf  contents:
<Plugin ping>
SourceAddress "11.255.2.1"
Host "11.254.1.1"
Host "11.255.1.1"
Host "11.254.3.1"
Host "11.255.3.1"
</Plugin>
<Plugin ping>
SourceAddress "11.254.2.1"
Host "11.254.1.1"
Host "11.255.1.1"
Host "11.254.3.1"
Host "11.255.3.1"
</Plugin>
<Plugin ping>
SourceAddress "fd00:cafe:0:fe02::1"
Host "fd00:cafe:0:fe01::1"
Host "fd00:cafe:0:ff01::1"
Host "fd00:cafe:0:fe03::1"
Host "fd00:cafe:0:ff03::1"
</Plugin>
<Plugin ping>
SourceAddress "fd00:cafe:0:ff02::1"
Host "fd00:cafe:0:fe01::1"
Host "fd00:cafe:0:ff01::1"
Host "fd00:cafe:0:fe03::1"
Host "fd00:cafe:0:ff03::1"
</Plugin>


System information:
root at ibsen:~/tmp# aptitude show collectd
Package: collectd                        
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 4.10.1-2.1ubuntu7
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 128 k
Depends: collectd-core, libc6 (>= 2.4), librrd4 (>= 1.3.0)
Recommends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2-1), libdbi1 (>= 0.8.4), libesmtp6, libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.5), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libmemcached6 (>= 0.44), libmysqlclient18 (>= 5.5.13-1), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), libopenipmi0, liboping0 (>= 0.3.3), libpcap0.8 (>= 0.9.8), libperl5.14 (>= 5.14.2), libpq5 (>= 8.4~), libpython2.7
            (>= 2.7), librrd4 (>= 1.4~rc2), libsensors4 (>= 1:3.0.0), libsnmp15 (>= 5.4.3~dfsg), libtokyotyrant3, libupsclient1 (>= 2.4.1), libvirt0 (>= 0.3.2), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libyajl1 (>= 1.0.5)
Conflicts: collectd
Description: statistics collection and monitoring daemon
 collectd is a small daemon which collects system information periodically and provides mechanisms to monitor and store the values in a variety of ways. Since the daemon doesn't need to startup every time it wants to update the values it's very fast and easy on the system. Also, the statistics are very fine grained since the files are
 updated every 10 seconds by default. 
 
 The collected information can be used to find current performance bottlenecks (performance analysis) and predict future system load (capacity planning). 
 
 This package provides a full installation of the daemon, including the configuration. For the core system, see the "collectd-core" package, which allows sites to, e.g., provide customizations (like a custom default configuration) on top of it without having to modify the "collectd" package.
Homepage: http://collectd.org/

root at ibsen:~/tmp# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release:	12.04
Codename:	precise
root at ibsen:~/tmp# 

root at ibsen:~/tmp# uname -a 
Linux ibsen.beta.test 3.2.0-56-generic #86-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 23 09:20:45 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root at ibsen:~/tmp# 

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Best regards 
Jarle Bjørgeengen
Research engineer
Simula Research Laboratory