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Traceroute defaults to IPv4 instead of IPv6 [rhel-9]

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      This is a clone of issue RHEL-58449 to use for version rhel-9.6

      Original description:
      Traceroute defaults to IPv4 addresses even when IPv6  addresses are available. While there is the traceroute6 option, The RFC below appears to indicate that this should not be the case. 

      RFC-3484 - Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3484

       

      Traceroute outputs from RHEL 9 system:

      [root@Kombat9 ~]# traceroute kernel.org
      traceroute to kernel.org (139.178.84.217), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
      [root@R9 ~]# traceroute6 kernel.org
      traceroute to kernel.org (2604:1380:4641:c500::1), 30 hops max, 80 byte packets
      

      Ping output showing default to IPv6

      [root@R9 ~]# ping  kernel.org
      PING kernel.org(dfw.source.kernel.org (2604:1380:4641:c500::1)) 56 data bytes

       

            jamacku@redhat.com Jan Macku
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            Jan Macku Jan Macku
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