On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 08:25 -0400, James Knott wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Hermann J. Beckers wrote:
> Do both machines have IPv6 addresses? `ip -6 addr` > Can the machines ping each other's IPv6 addresses? `ping6 > fdb5:60da:9b8a:1:250:56ff:fea8:27e2` [assuming they are on the same > subnet] About this... I really hate it if I some day need to start to use addresses like this in my home network.:-( Just add them to your hosts file. They work fine that way. BTW, what the heck is that address? It looks similar to a "unique local" address, but all those are supposed to start with fc00 or fd00. I have no idea were fdb5 might have come from. Incidenatlly, I have no problem using ssh -X over either IPv4 or IPv6 here. I have IPv6 enabled on all my computers and also to the internet. Forgot to mention, that ssh -X included both to and from an 11.3 system. So, there's no problem with that and 11.3 over either IPv4 or IPv6.
I communicate mostly from openSUSE 11.2/11.3 with CentOS5 servers. IPv6 works fine there as well.
At least in my case the problem was NOT with IPv6. I just routinely disable it, since I have no need to use it. What I've noticed on 11.1 (and also on 11.3) was that when IPv6 is being disabled via YaST, the /etc/hosts file still retains IPv6 addresses (not sure if this is a bug or is harmless). Now I recalled what was the exact problem with 11.1. For some reason there stayed only IPv6 version (::1) of the entry for localhost in /etc/hosts and no 127.0.0.1 as in IPv4. That caused all sorts of misbehaving. When I found the reason I've just added manually correct entry for localhost and removed IPv6 ones and the problems have gone. I thought that maybe OP has some similar issue, not with IPv6 itself. Regards, -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org