Starting sshd with ipv6 address only (cont.)

dimitri berbanov bpmz@hotmail.com
Mon Sep 20 09:17:00 GMT 2004


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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