RE: Newbie help / Project status query
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:jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 22:46
> To: debian-ipv6@lists.debian.org
> 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;
>
> jason@cds020:~$ ping ::1
> ping: unknown host ::1
> jason@cds020:~$ grep ip6-localhost /etc/hosts
> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> jason@cds020:~$ ping ip6-localhost
> ping: unknown host ip6-localhost
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Also, ssh refuses to connect to the localhost;
>
> jason@cds020:~$ 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"
> jason@khendon.org.uk
>
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