problem with DNS lookups on non-IPv4-only-mode?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:47:02PM -0500, Kendell Welch wrote:
> > Actually it will only help for servers that are IPv4-only - and on those,
> > you can just run "sshd -4".
> 
> Wouldn't it make more sense to offer a "sshd -6" option that people
> desiring IPv6 functionlity should enable?  I understand that some or all
> of you may use IPv6 on your networks, but the vast majority of the
> Internet community does not...it seems to me that the exception should be
> IPv6, not IPv4.

Using whatever protocol available is the way forward.  Every decent
application should behave the way ssh/sshd do, without explicit enabling
IP multiprotocol support.

Fix the problem, not the symptoms.

gert

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