Re: Newbie help / Project status query
Jason,
I had this same problem, and the solution that worked for me
was to grab ping6 from the linux ipv6 page. I couldn't get
the debian netkit-ping package to work with ipv6 either.
The URL for ping6 is listed on Peter's page at:
http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/status/IPv6+Linux-status-distributions.html
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Jason Williams wrote:
:
: Hi...
:
: I think I've got everything I need to do to get my debian "testing"
: system set up right for ipv6, but it doesn't seem to be working.
:
: My network interfaces have inet6 addresses - Excerpt from ifconfig;
:
: lo Link encap:Local Loopback
: inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
: inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
: UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
:
: I have these lines in my apt sources.list
:
: deb http://people.debian.org/~kitame/ipv6 ipv6 unstable
: deb http://www14.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/db3/h-yamamo/ipv6/debian potato/
:
: I have the ipv6 version of netkit-ping
:
: ii netkit-ping 0.17-0.1.ipv6r The ping utility from netkit
:
: But ping doesn't seem to recognise IPv6 addresses;
:
: jason@cds020:~$ ping ::1
: ping: unknown host ::1
: jason@cds020:~$ grep ip6-localhost /etc/hosts
: ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
: jason@cds020:~$ ping ip6-localhost
: ping: unknown host ip6-localhost
:
: What am I missing?
:
: Also, ssh refuses to connect to the localhost;
:
: jason@cds020:~$ ssh ::1
: Secure connection to ::1 refused.
:
:
:
: Secondly, what is the current status of the debian IPv6 project? Not in
: terms of individual packages, but in terms of overall progress - are
: there active moves to make IPv6 more integrated with debian as a
: whole? (ie, towards making IPv6 at least as easy to set up as IPv4).
:
:
: Cheers :-)
:
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