From 691d5235ca9485877e8345269b1be4b2cf1be322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Darren Tucker Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:45:57 +1100 Subject: - (dtucker) [README.platform auth.c configure.ac loginrec.c openbsd-compat/port-aix.c openbsd-compat/port-aix.h] Bug #835: enable IPv6 on AIX where possible (see README.platform for details) and work around a misfeature of AIX's getnameinfo. ok djm@ --- README.platform | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README.platform') diff --git a/README.platform b/README.platform index 880b83c6..136304a8 100644 --- a/README.platform +++ b/README.platform @@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ Accounts in this state must have their passwords reset manually by the administrator. As a precaution, it is recommended that the administrative passwords be reset before upgrading from OpenSSH <3.8. +As of OpenSSH 4.0, configure will attempt to detect if your version +and maintenance level of AIX has a working getaddrinfo, and will use it +if found. This will enable IPv6 support. If for some reason configure +gets it wrong, or if you want to build binaries to work on earlier MLs +than the build host then you can add "-DBROKEN_GETADDRINFO" to CFLAGS +to force the previous IPv4-only behaviour. + +IPv6 known to work: 5.2ML2 5.2ML5 +IPv6 known broken: 4.3.3ML11 5.1ML4 Cygwin ------ @@ -27,4 +36,4 @@ Currently, sshd does not support BSM auditting. This can show up as errors when editting cron entries via crontab. See. http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125 -$Id: README.platform,v 1.2 2004/04/23 08:57:13 dtucker Exp $ +$Id: README.platform,v 1.3 2005/02/15 10:45:57 dtucker Exp $ -- cgit v1.2.3