Address family not supported by protocol

Hi,

when I execute 'ssh -l NAME localhost', my Debian
system issues a warning:
"socket: Address family not supported by protocol".
ssh still works after that.

Any ideas why this message occurs and how I could fix/avoid
it?

Regards,
Chris

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:42:46 +0200, Christian Christmann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>when I execute 'ssh -l NAME localhost', my Debian
>system issues a warning:
>"socket: Address family not supported by protocol".
>ssh still works after that.
>
>Any ideas why this message occurs and how I could fix/avoid
>it?

It's harmless. ssh first tries to connect over IPv6, which is
apparantly not configured on you system.

--
Maurice

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:00:40 +0000, Maurice Janssen wrote:

>>Any ideas why this message occurs and how I could fix/avoid
>>it?
>
> It's harmless. ssh first tries to connect over IPv6, which is
> apparantly not configured on you system.

Any ideas how to tell ssh to firstly connect to IPv4 and not to
IPv6?

Hello,

Christian Christmann a écrit :
>
> Any ideas how to tell ssh to firstly connect to IPv4 and not to
> IPv6?

'man ssh' says :
-4 Forces ssh to use IPv4 addresses only

Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Christian Christmann a écrit :
>> Any ideas how to tell ssh to firstly connect to IPv4 and not to
>> IPv6?
>
> 'man ssh' says :
> -4 Forces ssh to use IPv4 addresses only

In addition, the AddressFamily option in ssh_config should help.

--
Paul