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by **Gary Clem** » Sat, 21 Aug 1999 04:00:00

Hi, I've compiled my Linux (Red Hat 6) kernel to enable IPv6 support and
compiled and installed the required tools (inet-apps and net-tools, new
versions of ftp, telnet etc). Ping works fine if I ping the local host,
i.e.
% ping -a inet6 ::1

However if I try to telnet using
% telnet ::1
I get
telnet: getaddrinfo: ::1.telnet: name or service is not known(-2)

I get a similar message if I try to use ftp, BUT if I use ftp via a command
prompt session, i.e. by first typing
% ftp
and then

Quote:> open ::1

everything works fine, but only once. If I close the connection and try to
open it again I get the getaddrinfo message again. Can anybody help?

Many thanks
Gary

by **Raymonds Doetje** » Mon, 23 Aug 1999 04:00:00

You find this strange?
Its not since 99.999% of the service are build for ipv4 and don't know what to
do with ipv6. This is the whole problem with IPV6 at this point. SOftware
needs to be rewritten (the least terrible part) but what about all the
hardware routers, access servers, switches etc etc etc

SO I suggest you use IPv4 untill IPV6 is common enough to use it.

Raymond

> Hi, I've compiled my Linux (Red Hat 6) kernel to enable IPv6 support and
> compiled and installed the required tools (inet-apps and net-tools, new
> versions of ftp, telnet etc). Ping works fine if I ping the local host,
> i.e.
> % ping -a inet6 ::1

> However if I try to telnet using
> % telnet ::1
> I get
> telnet: getaddrinfo: ::1.telnet: name or service is not known(-2)

> I get a similar message if I try to use ftp, BUT if I use ftp via a command
> prompt session, i.e. by first typing
> % ftp
> and then
> > open ::1
> everything works fine, but only once. If I close the connection and try to
> open it again I get the getaddrinfo message again. Can anybody help?

> Many thanks
> Gary

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