[ILUG] SSH strangeness

[Scott Wunsch]

On Thu, 09-May-2002 at 11:40:36 +0100, kevin lyda wrote:

> > debug1: Bind to port 22 on ::.
> > Server listening on :: port 22.
> > debug1: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0.
> > Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use.
> > 
> > However, I've discounted that because I get it on one of the other servers
> > and anyway, I have the same problems when I explicitly set in sshd_config:
> 
> stop sshd on this machine.  look and see what has port 22 open still.
> kill it.  start sshd.

Actually, the error message is simply because sshd is listening on the IPv6
address first, and that automatically covers the IPv4 address too.  Thus,
trying to listen on the IPv4 address as well fails.

This isn't his problem :-).

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Scott \\'unsch

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