Jason, I had this same problem, and the solution that worked for me was to grab ping6 from the linux ipv6 page. I couldn't get the debian netkit-ping package to work with ipv6 either.
The URL for ping6 is listed on Peter's page at: http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/status/IPv6+Linux-status-distributions.html -- Hans Kuhn, Academic User Services office (541) 346-1714 University of Oregon, 237 CC fax (541) 346-4397 Key fingerprint = 1E BC 32 03 AC E9 82 6C 44 4A CD 63 BB 2D 51 89 On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Jason Williams wrote: : : Hi... : : I think I've got everything I need to do to get my debian "testing" : system set up right for ipv6, but it doesn't seem to be working. : : My network interfaces have inet6 addresses - Excerpt from ifconfig; : : lo Link encap:Local Loopback : inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 : inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host : UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 : : I have these lines in my apt sources.list : : deb http://people.debian.org/~kitame/ipv6 ipv6 unstable : deb http://www14.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/db3/h-yamamo/ipv6/debian potato/ : : I have the ipv6 version of netkit-ping : : ii netkit-ping 0.17-0.1.ipv6r The ping utility from netkit : : But ping doesn't seem to recognise IPv6 addresses; : : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping ::1 : ping: unknown host ::1 : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep ip6-localhost /etc/hosts : ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping ip6-localhost : ping: unknown host ip6-localhost : : What am I missing? : : Also, ssh refuses to connect to the localhost; : : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh ::1 : Secure connection to ::1 refused. : : : : Secondly, what is the current status of the debian IPv6 project? Not in : terms of individual packages, but in terms of overall progress - are : there active moves to make IPv6 more integrated with debian as a : whole? (ie, towards making IPv6 at least as easy to set up as IPv4). : : : Cheers :-) :
