On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:35:10PM -0500, Allan Clark wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:22:44PM +0000, Chris Butler wrote: > > This looks like wu-ftpd is using an INET6 address for its control port, > > yet wu-ftpd doesn't actually have any support for IPv6 at present. > > > > Are you running wu-ftpd from inetd, listening on an IPv6 address? > I never *chose* to have an IPv6 port for FTP, but that's what happened > according to netstat. When wu-ftpd failed, I swapped inetd for > inetutils-inetd, and saw the same failure. I did not configure > inetd for IPv6 (I don't see a switch for that), but when FTP stopped > working, perhaps the inetd and inetutils authors chose that.
I see. I can't actually find anything in the inetd changes history about it, but it may have happened without being noted. > Do you know what inetd package *works* with wu-ftpd? I would prefer > to replace inetutils-inetd with a working inetd variant and have the > problem go away :) openbsd-inetd works in exactly the same way as the standard inetd, but allows you to explicitly specify which IP version to use by replacing "tcp" in the service configuration with "tcp4" or "tcp6" (the manpage explains it better than I can!). Hope this solves your problem. -- Chris http://crispygoth.livejournal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
