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Re: ftp services with ipv6 on Sid



On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:20:15AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:

||  $ ftp 2001:470:1F00:1683::1
||  ftp: 2001:470:1F00:1683::1: Unknown host
||
||  $ ftp [2001:470:1F00:1683::1]
||  ftp: [2001:470:1F00:1683::1]: Unknown host
||
||  $ ftp "2001:470:1F00:1683::1"
||  ftp: 2001:470:1F00:1683::1: Unknown host

This particular ftp program does not appear to understand IPv6
addresses.  Pick another.

||  In case it helps, if I put ftp://server6/ in Konqueror,
||
||  An error occurred while loading ftp://server6/:
||  Could not connect to host server6.

What a useless error message.

||  But as with the standard ftp client, Konqueror connects to
||  ftp.nerim.net just fine.

It has an IPv4 address.  Your standard ftp client is probably using
that.

Ciao.                                                        Vincent.
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