Michael Felt <aixto...@felt.demon.nl> added the comment:

No problem with trying out your tests. 

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> On 25 May 2019, at 00:19, Erwan Le Pape <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Erwan Le Pape <lepaperw...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> 
> Thanks for testing that. It's good that you used an actual address because 
> that eliminates the possibility that AIX doesn't handle addresses it doesn't 
> really know about.
> 
> On the other hand, even when properly specified to a real scoped IPv6 
> address, `getaddrinfo` doesn't seem to get the necessary scope ID from the 
> underlying C call which socket.getaddrinfo > _socket.getaddrinfo is pretty 
> much mapped to.
> 
> I'm looking at cpython/master for the socketmodule implementation:
> https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/6dbbe748e101a173b4cff8aada41e9313e287e0f/Modules/socketmodule.c#L6400
>  is `getaddrinfo`
> https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/socketmodule.c#L1294 is 
> `makesockaddr` which actually creates the 4-tuple returned as the last 
> element of the `getaddrinfo` tuples.
> The fourth element (ie. the scope ID) is clearly `a->sin6_scope_id` which 
> should contain the scope ID.
> 
> At this stage, I don't know if this is a bug from the socketmodule which I 
> doubt or if the AIX `getaddrinfo` simply just doesn't handle scoped IP 
> addresses properly.
> 
> If you're still okay to proxy tests for AIX, I'll try and come up with either 
> a simple C snippet to see what's in the returned structure or ctype the AIX 
> `libc` `getaddrinfo`.
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