[avahi] avahi w/fixed IP, ipv6, and Macs?

[Ted Percival]

So the Mac is trying to connect over IPv6 but hydra's SSH daemon is not
listening on IPv6? In that case you should configure the SSH daemon to
listen on IPv6.

IPv6 automatically assigns an address that is valid only for the local
subnet. There's no harm in using it.


David Abrahams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Linux fileserver called hydra on my network with a fixed IP
> address.  I can 
>
>         ssh hydra.local
>
> from another Linux box, but not from a Mac.
>
> Adding an /etc/avahi/hosts file containing
>
>   192.168.xxx.xxx hydra.local
>
> doesn't help.  If I pass -vvv to ssh, it appears that the Linux boxen
> connect to hydra's ipv4 address, but the Mac is finding the ipv6
> address.  
>
> I don't even know how the ipv6 address is getting assigned --- I don't
> set up any ipv6 in hydra's /etc/network/interfaces file --- but it seems
> as though this should all still work.  I realize I could turn off ipv6
> on the fileserver, but I shouldn't have to, should I?
>
> Thanks,
>
>