[Bug 1950] sshd tries to bind over and over to ::1 for several seconds

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1950

--- Comment #2 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> 2011-11-13 13:10:15 EST ---
It tries to bind to IPv6 because getaddrinfo tells it to, even though
bind will never work.

Unfortunately, your patch reintroduces the problem described in
CVE-2008-1483.  As a workaround you can set AddressFamily inet in
sshd_config, or fix getaddrinfo.

See:
http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=123378783531913&w=2
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1483

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