Important fix (sshd && binding). Portable version only.

[Damien Miller]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Kevin Steves wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> : If bind() fails we _always_ should close socket. I sent this patch while ago
> : to djm but I still don't see this fix in openssh_cvs.
> 
> i don't know why the test for !ai->ai_next was added?  anyone?

It was a workaround for bugs in Linux's IPv6 support.

-d

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