On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:19:47PM +0100, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> 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.

Only in this special case - if he called any other dual-stack host
outside of his own domain, he wouldn't be able to "fix" the configuration,
but still get the error.

> This doesn't make openssh's behaviour less stupid,

... and we should probably fix it (like, not print ENOSUCHPROTOCOL or
how it's called unless verbose or the last address to try).

	-is
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