Hi, Why are you trying to ping a IPv6 address with a ping ? You should use ping6 isn t it ? 'ping6 ::1' try the package 'iputils-ping'. Look if ssh is lissening the IPv6 address: 'netstat -a' or 'netstat -an' (port :::22)
debian status IPv6 http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/status/IPv6+Linux-status-distributions.ht ml CU Alexis > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 22:46 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Newbie help / Project status query > > > > 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 :-) > -- > "No sense in making things worse by telling the truth" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
