diff --git a/bash_completion b/bash_completion
index 36a9fa890f3..a6b707e9f58 100644
--- a/bash_completion
+++ b/bash_completion
@@ -1708,7 +1708,7 @@ _comp_compgen_mac_addresses()
     # - ip link: link/ether
     _comp_compgen -v addresses split -- "$(
         {
-            LC_ALL=C ifconfig -a || ip -c=never link show || ip link show
+            ip -c=never link show || ip link show || LC_ALL=C ifconfig -a
         } 2>/dev/null | command sed -ne \
             "s/.*[[:space:]]HWaddr[[:space:]]\{1,\}\($_re\)[[:space:]].*/\1/p" -ne \
             "s/.*[[:space:]]HWaddr[[:space:]]\{1,\}\($_re\)[[:space:]]*$/\1/p" -ne \
@@ -1779,7 +1779,7 @@ _comp_compgen_ip_addresses()
     local PATH=$PATH:/sbin
     local addrs
     _comp_compgen -v addrs split -- "$({
-        LC_ALL=C ifconfig -a || ip -c=never addr show || ip addr show
+        ip -c=never addr show || ip addr show || LC_ALL=C ifconfig -a
     } 2>/dev/null |
         command sed -e 's/[[:space:]]addr:/ /' -ne \
             "s|.*inet${_n}[[:space:]]\{1,\}\([^[:space:]/]*\).*|\1|p")" ||
@@ -1813,9 +1813,12 @@ _comp_compgen_available_interfaces()
         if [[ ${1-} == -w ]]; then
             iwconfig
         elif [[ ${1-} == -a ]]; then
-            ifconfig || ip -c=never link show up || ip link show up
+            # Note: we prefer ip (iproute2) to ifconfig (inetutils) since long
+            # interface names will be truncated by ifconfig [1].
+            # [1]: https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/1089
+            ip -c=never link show up || ip link show up || ifconfig
         else
-            ifconfig -a || ip -c=never link show || ip link show
+            ip -c=never link show || ip link show || ifconfig -a
         fi
     } 2>/dev/null | _comp_awk \
         '/^[^ \t]/ { if ($1 ~ /^[0-9]+:/) { print $2 } else { print $1 } }')" &&
diff --git a/test/fixtures/_comp_compgen_xinetd_services/xinetd.d/arp b/test/fixtures/_comp_compgen_xinetd_services/xinetd.d/arp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/test/fixtures/_comp_compgen_xinetd_services/xinetd.d/ifconfig b/test/fixtures/_comp_compgen_xinetd_services/xinetd.d/ifconfig
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/test/fixtures/shared/bin/ip b/test/fixtures/shared/bin/ip
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..d17490ec3d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/shared/bin/ip
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Dummy "ip addr show" and "ip link show up" emulator
+
+for arg in "$@"; do
+case "$arg" in
+link)
+cat <<EOF
+1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
+    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
+2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DEFAULT group default 
+    link/ether 33:33:33:33:33:33 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netnsid 0
+EOF
+exit 0
+  ;;
+addr)
+cat <<EOF
+1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
+    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
+    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
+       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
+    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
+       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
+2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default 
+    link/ether 33:33:33:33:33:33 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netnsid 0
+    inet 192.168.80.11/24 brd 192.168.80.255 scope global eth0
+       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
+    inet6 fe80::000:0000:0000:0000/64 scope link 
+       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
+EOF
+exit 0
+  ;;
+esac
+done
+
+exit 1
diff --git a/test/t/unit/test_unit_compgen_xinetd_services.py b/test/t/unit/test_unit_compgen_xinetd_services.py
index fdc9b3f618f..915e1895717 100644
--- a/test/t/unit/test_unit_compgen_xinetd_services.py
+++ b/test/t/unit/test_unit_compgen_xinetd_services.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ def test_env_non_pollution(self, bash):
     def test_basic(self, bash):
         output = assert_bash_exec(
             bash,
-            "foo() { local _comp__test_xinetd_dir=$PWD/shared/bin; unset -v COMPREPLY; "
+            "foo() { local _comp__test_xinetd_dir=$PWD/_comp_compgen_xinetd_services/xinetd.d; unset -v COMPREPLY; "
             '_comp_compgen_xinetd_services; printf "%s\\n" "${COMPREPLY[@]}"; }; foo; unset -f foo',
             want_output=True,
         )