Re: non-commercial ssh-3.2.3, IRIX 6.5

From: Atro Tossavainen (atossava@cc.helsinki.fi)
Date: 04/23/03

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    From: Atro Tossavainen <atossava@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: secureshell@securityfocus.com
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 01:45:57 +0300 (EEST)

    Joachim,

    > having problem to use the ssh-3.2.3 client under IRIX 6.5 (noncommercial
    > ssh version):
    >
    > trying
    > ssh2 <some host>
    >
    > fails with
    >
    > warning: Connecting to <some host> failed: TCP/IP Failure
    ...
    > Strange: When using the target ip address instead of the target hostname, ssh connection
    > will be successful.

    Try compiling with MIPSpro instead of gcc?

    For some reason, this reminds me of the old inet_aton problem with gcc
    on IRIX where all connecting addresses would register as 255.255.255.255
    in the system logs (when sshd was compiled with gcc, that is). 

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