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

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Sun Feb 18 13:11:18 EST 2001


On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Kevin Steves wrote:

> i don't have ipv6 configs to experiment with, but i do not agree with a
> change that drops valid error messages and logs erroneous success
> messages.
> 
> i would like to sync with openbsd. can you come up with a patch that
> would be accepted in their tree that will log acceptably on all
> platforms?

I think we should sync with OpenBSD - this problem is specific to 
Linux IPv6 (which is rare) and can be worked around by being careful 
with ListenAddress.

We may need to ship a config with "ListenAddress 0.0.0.0" though.

-d

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