On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:11:52PM -0800, jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu wrote:
> I think the real ``bug'' is forcing IPv6 down people's throats
> whethher they want it or no, which leads to nobody bothering to
> test IPv6-less configs, which leads to bugs (or more accurately,
> buggy error messgaes) like the one George encountered.

I bet he still has the default /etc/hosts and therefore gets ::1 for
localhost. That quite clearly makes it a local configuration problem.
This doesn't make openssh's behaviour less stupid, but at least shows
why he is getting it. The rest is a resolver question.

Joerg