Bug#439661: openssh-server: Don't complain if IPv4 listening is handled by IPv6

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

forwarded 439661 https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392
tags 439661 fixed-upstream
thanks

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 01:40:43PM +0200, Jö Fahlke wrote:
> In my auth.log I see lines like
> Aug 26 13:11:21 jupiter sshd[13762]: Server listening on :: port 22.
> Aug 26 13:11:21 jupiter sshd[13762]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use.
> 
> However, I am still able to connect to the server via 127.0.0.1.
> Apparently, binding a socket to the ipv6 adress :: will also bind it
> to the ipv4 address 0.0.0.0 unless /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only is
> set to 1.  It would be nice if sshd would not explicitly bind to
> 0.0.0.0 or if it would not log that error in this case.

Thanks for your report, and sorry for the delay. This seems to be
upstream bug #1392, fixed in OpenSSH 4.9p1; I'll be uploading 5.1p1 to
unstable relatively soon.

Regards,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]