port forwarding trouble

Frederik Eaton frederik at a5.repetae.net
Wed Aug 10 18:01:20 EST 2005


Thanks for taking care of this.

Frederik

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:19:10PM +1000, Darren Tucker wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:35:49PM +0200, Sergio Gelato wrote:
> > I'm not sure about URLs, but various tools simply require square
> > brackets around the IPv6 address, as in
> > 	[0:1:2:3:4:5:6:7]:port
> > For example, this (minus the port number) is what you are supposed to
> > do in /etc/hosts.allow. Implementations differ as to whether one needs
> > [fe80::]/10 or [fe80::/10] for network prefixes, but I think the former
> > is winning.
> 
> Alright, I've made an attempt to implement this and attached it to
> the bug.  Please let us know how reviewing and testing the patch goes.
> Better wording for the man page would also be appreciated.
> 
> http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910
> 
> Brief overview from patch description:
> Implement port spec as per sshd(8) ListenAddress
> 
> The following are valid hostname entries:
> localhost
> 127.0.0.1
> ::1
> localhost:222
> 127.0.0.1:222
> [::1]:222
> 
> The first 3 should remain backward compatible with older versions and
> are still written if possible.  The syntax is compatible with the sshd(8)
> ListenAddress option (uses the same parser).
> 
> -- 
> Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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