Re: IPV6 things...
* Markus Grunwald (markus.grunwald@gmx.de) spake thusly:
> Hi!
>
> I would like to say a few words about ipv6 handling of some few
> programs.
>
> Are YOU using ipv6 ? No ? Well, me neither. It's a nice thing and I will
> use it if I have to, but up to now, everything here is ipv4.
>
> Some programs (I only know ssh and exim but I bet there are more...) are
> "ready for the future" and support ipv6. Thats is surely a good thing.
>
> Fun ends, if I can't tell a program NOT to use ipv6 by default. ssh is
> an example: If i use plain ssh command, say "ssh marvin", I can wait for
> ages until the connection is done, because an ipv6 query causes a dns
> timeout. So far so bad, but if I use DoD, this even costs money.
Recompile --with-ipv4-default, and/or file a bug report. (What you see
is mentioned in OpenSSH INSTALL file.)
... Ok, I
> can use "ssh -4" and i have an alias set to this. But why on earth is
> there no parameter for the config-file ?
Because making it run-time configurable will probably cause more trouble
than it's worth? Because if GNU project is unable to produce a non-b0rked
libc, that's not an SSH problem?
Dima
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