On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:42:57PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:54:38AM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> >
> >In message <20060221192642.GD18891@sta.duo>,
> >"George Georgalis" writes:
> >
> >>I'm pretty sure one of these disabled kernel options below is
> >>causing the warning:
> >>
> >># ssh root@localhost
> >>socket: Protocol not supported
> >
> >Are you sure that your ssh application isn't merely using a rather
> >dumb way to tell you that it tried IPv6 connectivity to your target
> >before IPv4, that your kernel lacks IPv6 support, and so the socket()
> >call failed?  
> 
> right, which socket/protocol would be really useful for this warning.
> 
> 
> >line from /etc/hosts, that should silence this specific problem.  Or
> >retrain yourself to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost,
> >
> >Or perhaps, you're having other SSH problems, and you're trying to use
> >``ssh localhost' to diagnose them? If so, what are they?
> 
> came about doing anon cvs for pkgsrc/src -- just trying to
> eliminate warnings at my site.
> 
> >(See also other recent threads over the past 2 days for where I
> >propose /etc/rc.conf hooks to disable IPv6 configuration, for reasons
> >not-unlike your case.)
> 
> On the surface, sounds like a good idea, but I'm biased against ipv6.

Uhm... in George's case, disabling it was what created the error. 
Enabling it and the lo0 device would have made it succeed ;-)

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