Subject: Re: security/ssh IPv6 and SOCKS incompatibility
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/13/2000 10:36:43
In article <28339.950414070@coconut.itojun.org>,
itojun@iijlab.net writes:
> PR 9371 talks about it. This is because:
> - SSH IPv6 patch now uses get{addr,name}info, not gethostby{name,addr},
> to query hostnames
What abouting adding some stub function if socks is used?
> - SOCKS is unable to socks-ify them
I would suggest that USE_INET6 and USE_SOCKS together either cause a
build failure. For now I moidified "pkgsrc/mk/bsd.prefs.mk" not to
activate IPv6 support if socks is used.
> - make security/ssh6 for certain period of time
No, please not. That kludge was used far to many times already.
Kind regards
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Matthias Scheler http://www.sighardstrasse.de/~tron/