Re: Running OpenSSH 3.9p1 on AIX 5.1

Peter Losher wrote:
> Just a side note, v4 connections work fine; it is the v6 connections
> that are failing with the ssh_exchange_identification error.  Has anyone
> been able to get OpenSSH running on a v6 aware AIX 5.1 system?

Yes but not until after 3.9.  The current development versions of OpenSSH 
and the upcoming 4.0 release will work with IPv6 on recent AIX maintenance 
levels (by working around an interesting, err, feature of AIX's 
getnameinfo).  You also need to put "AddressFamily inet6" in sshd_config 
or start sshd with the -6 option.

From OpenSSH's README.platform:
IPv6 known to work: 5.1ML7 5.2ML2 5.2ML5
IPv6 known broken: 4.3.3ML11 5.1ML4

(if anyone can fill in whether or not the missing MLs work please let me 
know privately and I'll add them to the list.)

For the gory details see http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=835

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