[ CC'd to xemacs-beta since XEmacs 21.2-beta is one of the programs that hangs at startup trying to look up ipv6 addresses ] Brian> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 07:52:09AM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Brian> Because ssh is not compiled with --with-ipv4-default. Brian> --with-ipv4-default Use IPv4 by connections unless '-6' specified Brian> bma＠kalgan [~/debian/packages/ssh/openssh-2.2.0p1]: grep ipv4 debian/rules Brian> bma＠kalgan [~/debian/packages/ssh/openssh-2.2.0p1]: Brian> In the openssh diff.gz it seems like the ssh maintainer is trying to force Brian> IPV4_DEFAULT in the defines, but I know this has bitten at least one other Brian> person I know of...I don't know why the ssh maint is just not using the Brian> configure option. Ah, Ok. Perhaps that will fix `ssh'. What about XEmacs-21.2-beta, I wonder? What does `ssh' do that keeps it from trying to look up an ipv6 address via DNS? In the meantime, the workaround is to place entries in /etc/hosts for 2002:... ipv6-in-4 addresses for localhost.mydomain.net as well as myhostname.mydomain.net.