Re: What does #ffff## in xauth do (apart from breaking my X forwarding...)

I wonder whether this is an artifact of ipv4 packets to/from an ipv6 interface, where v4 addresses map to v6 addresses in :::/96 and therefore have the form « :::a.b.c.d ». Just speculating, -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 ___

What does #ffff## in xauth do (apart from breaking my X forwarding...)

Hi all, I've been struggling with getting my X forwarding over SSH working. After some time, I found that there were two entries in my .Xauthority file that have ### as a hostname, which break forwarding. The relevant entries in my .Xauthority files were: ###: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 #f