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

[Damien Miller]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Kevin Steves wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Damien Miller 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.
> 
> i don't understand this requirement--can you elaborate?

The default is to try and bind to both IPv4 and IPv6 sockets, which 
elicits the error message on Linux.

-d


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