stuck for a week at netstat -A inet6 -an

[John Comeau]

I've been following the IPV6 Howto, or at least I think I have, and I can't
seem to get past this roadblock. I've got xinetd set up with all the services,
such as finger, daytime, echo, etc, and don't see any listening on IPV6
addresses. And I get connection refused on all inet6 ports. 'tail
/var/log/messages' doesn't show any reason why.

I'm probably doing something very stupid... flame away, but try and squeeze
some useful tips in too 8^) - jc

[root@cto jc]# telnet ::1 echo
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection
refused                              

[root@cto jc]# netstat -?
usage: netstat [-veenNcCF] [<Af>] -r         netstat {-V|--version|-h|--help}
       netstat [-vnNcaeol] [<Socket> ...]
       netstat { [-veenNac] -i | [-cnNe] -M | -s }

        -r, --route              display routing table
        -g, --groups             display multicast group memberships
        -s, --statistics         display networking statistics (like SNMP)
        -M, --masquerade         display masqueraded connections
 
        -v, --verbose            be verbose
        -n, --numeric            dont resolve names
        -N, --symbolic           resolve hardware names
        -e, --extend             display other/more information
        -p, --programs           display PID/Program name for sockets
        -c, --continuous         continuous listing
 
        -l, --listening          display listening server sockets
        -a, --all, --listening   display all sockets (default: connected)
        -o, --timers             display timers
        -F, --fib                display Forwarding Information Base (default)
        -C, --cache              display routing cache instead of FIB
 
  <Socket>={-t|--tcp} {-u|--udp} {-w|--raw} {-x|--unix} --ax25 --ipx --netrom
  <AF>=Use '-A <af>' or '--<af>' Default: inet
  List of possible address families (which support routing):
    inet (DARPA Internet) inet6 (IPv6) ax25 (AMPR AX.25)
    netrom (AMPR NET/ROM) ipx (Novell IPX) ddp (Appletalk
DDP)                                                                                                

[root@cto jc]# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:4B:9C:BE:28
          inet addr:10.0.1.110  Bcast:10.0.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: 3ffe:400:100:ff01::1/0 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::10:4b9c:be28/10 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: fe80::210:4bff:fe9c:be28/10 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2052215 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2635708 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:6
          collisions:272078 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd400
 
[root@cto jc]# ping6 ::1
PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=0 hops=64 time=0.3 ms
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 hops=64 time=0.2 ms
 
--- ::1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.2/0.2/0.3 ms

[root@cto jc]# netstat -A inet6 -an
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State

[root@cto jc]#  
-- 
John Comeau - Chief Technology Officer 
Dialtone Internet - Extremely Fast Web Systems 
954-581-0097x113  fax://954-581-7629 
jcomeau@dialtoneinternet.net
http://www.dialtoneinternet.net
"We are a Responsible Internet Provider - see http://risp.org"