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No support for IPv6?

2016-03-23
2016-03-24
  • Isaac McDonald

    Isaac McDonald - 2016-03-23

    The plugin doesn't appear to support IPv6. An application exception occurs when trying to connect to an IPv6 only hostname. The error is: "Network error: Connection to "foo.example.com" timed out. foo.example.com being an example

    Steps to reproduce:

    1. Try and open a password file with a url containing a hostname that only resolves to an IPv6 address. eg, a hostname with an AAAA record but no A record. sftp://foo.example.com/passwordfile.kbdx
    2. Application exception occurs

    Entering an IPv6 address using the stadard rfc2732 format results in the same error. eg sftp://[1080::8:800:200C:417A]/passwordfile.kdbx

    I'm unsure if this is a bug report or a feature request.

    Please advise...

     
  • Paul

    Paul - 2016-03-23

    Are you talking about the IOProtocolExt plug-in? What version?

    cheers, Paul

     
  • Dominik Reichl

    Dominik Reichl - 2016-03-24

    Does it work when using WinSCP's GUI?

    IOProtocolExt does not contain any IPv4-specific code. I don't see any reason why IPv6 shouldn't work.

    Maybe WinSCP's automatic IPv4/IPv6 selection fails. You could try specifying
    AddressFamily=2
    in the WinSCP raw settings (on the 'Advanced' tab of the 'Open From URL' dialog in KeePass, using the latest KeePass 2.32 and IOProtocolExt 1.12).

    Best regards,
    Dominik

     

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