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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:40:24 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Starting sshd with ipv6 address only
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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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