On Saturday 12 November 2005 05:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > Hi,
Good morning. I do want to say thank you to everyone taking a stab at this. I agree, if name resolution works for ssh and ping6, it should work for everything. But... > This looks like a hostname resolution error. Either the client > cannot resolve "server6", but you said it does not work by address > either and this is not consistent with ssh working with the same > hostname, either the client does not support IPv6, but this is not > consistent with ftp working with shando.ipv6.nerim.net. Which FTP > client software did you use in each case ? The form of the error > message looks like netkit-ftp from package ftp, but this one is not > IPv6-compatible. As seen in dselect: *** Std net ftp 0.17-13 0.17-13 The FTP client The error that is seen in konqueror with ftp://server6/ An error occurred while loading ftp://server6: Could not connect to host server6. Firefox errors with "The connection was refused when trying to contact server6" > Mainstream wu-ftpd currently does not support IPv6. It could be that its refusal is generating errors that are being interpreted as name service errors but actually aren't. > You may > use pure-ftpd instead, which supports IPv6 and is the one running > on ftp.nerim.net. I will get that changed right away, and report back to the list if it makes any difference. > By the way, any network service using inetd won't work in IPv6 with > the default netkit-inetd which does not support IPv6. You have to > use a more advanced inetd replacement such as xinetd or start the > server as a standalone daemon. Ok, I'll try that too. I think it's a good time for the base Debian services to support v6, but I know the developers have tons of stuff on their plates already. I will double check the Debian v6 pages to see if there is any mention of packages "not supporting", which I don't remember seeing when I read them. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
