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Starting sshd with ipv6 address only (cont.)


So how come I can ping6 under cygwin?

From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Starting sshd with ipv6 address only
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:40:24 +0200

On Sep 17 15:33, dimitri berbanov wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running cygwin under Win XP, but I cannot get sshd to listen only on
> ipv6 address. I've installed sshd as a service with "cygrunsrv -I sshd
> --path /usr/sbin/sshd.exe -a -6" (in order to force sshd to use only IPv6
> address), and I've modified sshd_config with "ListenAddress <host's ipv6
> global address>". But when I try to start sshd "process unexpectedly
> terminates", and in /var/log/sshd.log it says "bad addr or host: <host's
> ipv6 global address> (no address associated with host name)."
>
> What could have gone wrong? Any help would be mostly appreciated.


Cygwin doesn't support ipv6 and therefore Cygwin's OpenSSH doesn't suport
it, too.


Corinna


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