On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > Previously Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > >> A bug, a feature, or something I omitted doing when upgrading > >> from potato to woody? > > > A feature, it tries to do telnet over ipv6 first. You can > > prevent the DNS lookup by sticking an ipv6 address in > > /etc/hosts. > > Wichert. > > Thanks! But.. > > 1) How? What does the IPv6 version of my IPv4 local addresses look > like?
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts > 2) Isn't this a rather doubtful feature? And shouldn't the upgrade > process have taken care of this automatically? In order to > prevent other na�ve users, like me, from causing "LAN leakage" > as a result of this feature? `naive' is without trema in english, and well... it *is* documented, I seem to recall. Even better, I seem to remember having encountered a mention of it during one of my upgrades... Doei, Arthur. -- /\ / | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work like you don't need the money /__\ / | A friend is someone with whom | Love like you have never been hurt / \/__ | you can dare to be yourself | Dance like there's nobody watching

