sshd startup error on SCO SR6

[Darren Tucker]

philip at yarra.no-ip.org wrote:
> Roger Cornelius <rac at tenzing.org> wrote:
[...]
>>   debug1: Bind to port 22 on ::.
>>   Bind to port 22 on :: failed: Network is unreachable.
>>   debug1: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0.
>>   Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
[...]
> Perhaps you don't have any IPv6 addresses
> configured? I'm pretty sure that the defaults these days are to try
> to bind to IPv6 addresses. Try adding "ListenAddress 0.0.0.0" to
> sshd_config and start sshd again.

You can also tell sshd to ignore IPv6 addresses ("AddressFamily inet" in 
sshd_config or start ssh with the "-4" command line option).

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