Re: apache 1.3.23 ipv6 binary
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 12:32:26AM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> Craig Small [mailto:csmall@eye-net.com.au] wrote:
>
> > I'm confused about this ssh doesn't work in IPv6 problems people are
> > having. I got ssh 3.4p1 here and it does IPv6. Sure I need a -- -6
> > in the init.d script but that's a minor annoyance.
>
> "minor" if you only got 1 IPv6 enabled box, if you got a couple of them
> and one has to update all those init.d's by hand on all of them it's
> starting
> to get more annoying.
>
> But the biggest 'problem' is the fact that one has to ssh "out" (client)
> by using -6, now if default-to-ipv4 (or what it is) was out of the main
> tree.
> One wouldn't have to do that and people would transparently start using
> IPv6.
>
> I still don't know why it's there... is it because people
> "open up ports in ipv6 which they firewall in v4" or ???
See bug #82468. It's an incompatibility in the linux 2.2 kernel ipv6
structures and the glibc 2.2 ipv6 structures. One could argue it's a system
misconfiguration, but the ssh package maintainer choose for the --ipv4-default
workaround apparently.
Sjoerd
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