pre-[ANNOUNCEMENT]: Updating inetutils and related packages

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 28 15:19, Charles Wilson wrote:
> After much pain and suffering, I've managed to restore what I consider
> to be full functionality for the inetutils servers (rsh, rlogin, rcp,
> telnet, ftp, ...).  However, there's been some restructuring (and there
> will be more in the future, but...not for a while.

I agree with Chris, thanks for doing this.

Here's a note:

> The r* tools (supposedly) support IPv6.

Yes, but...

> INETUTILS
> ============
> 4) The inetutils package has been updated to upstream release 1.7.
> However, it has NOT been compiled to support IPv6.  (A) The support for
> IPv6 in the inetd superserver is still somewhat lacking, (B) I'd rather
> put that effort into xinetd, and (C) it seems that many of the slave
> servers (ftpd, tftpd) OTHER than inetd, have no IPv6 support at all.

Well, as far as rshd is concerned, there was IPv6-related code in the
rcmd function for a few years...

Accidentally, I never enabled it...

Until today :-}

So, if you had trouble to run rsh connections with IPv6, that may be the
reason why.


Corinna

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