Re: Bug#80503: ssh: default configuration breaks IPv6
¡Hola!
> > > Are you sure? I think there's also a dns-lookup involved as otherwise
> > > you won't know the IP-address of the host that ssh should connect to.
> > Remember that we're talking about the server. The dns lookups are done
> But we also have to look at the effect for the users, because there are
> some users that do ssh localhost and where IPv6 is not configured.
The client doesn't read sshd_config, so any change to that won't affect its
behaviour.
> > just at connection time. The only dns lookup made by the server should
> > be an inverse lookup against the address where the connection is originated
> > from.
> Sure, that it's not trying an IPv6 Lookup first and then doing an IPv4
> Lookup if the first fails?
The reverse lookup? It's done against the address the client used, if client
used ipv4 it'll do an in-addr.arpa. lookup, and if client used ipv6 it'll do
an ip6.int. lookup.
> Ciao
> Christian
Saludos,
HoraPe
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Horacio J. Peña
horape@compendium.com.ar
horape@uninet.edu
bofh@puntoar.net.ar
horape@hcdn.gov.ar
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