X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:03:26 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: pre-[ANNOUNCEMENT]: Updating inetutils and related packages Message-ID: <20100329090326.GA12278@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4BAFABDB DOT 9040702 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BAFABDB.9040702@cwilson.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Mar 28 15:19, Charles Wilson wrote: > After much pain and suffering, I've managed to restore what I consider > to be full functionality for the inetutils servers (rsh, rlogin, rcp, > telnet, ftp, ...). However, there's been some restructuring (and there > will be more in the future, but...not for a while. I agree with Chris, thanks for doing this. Here's a note: > The r* tools (supposedly) support IPv6. Yes, but... > INETUTILS > ============ > 4) The inetutils package has been updated to upstream release 1.7. > However, it has NOT been compiled to support IPv6. (A) The support for > IPv6 in the inetd superserver is still somewhat lacking, (B) I'd rather > put that effort into xinetd, and (C) it seems that many of the slave > servers (ftpd, tftpd) OTHER than inetd, have no IPv6 support at all. Well, as far as rshd is concerned, there was IPv6-related code in the rcmd function for a few years... Accidentally, I never enabled it... Until today :-} So, if you had trouble to run rsh connections with IPv6, that may be the reason why. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple