On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Phil Savoie <psavoie1783 at rogers.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Using the following to ssh into my home to get mail, I suddenly get this: > > ssh -o TCPKeepAlive=yes -o ServerAliveInterval=240 -L > 110:192.168.100.108:110 phil at FQDN > phil at FQDN's password: > bind: Cannot assign requested address <---- > Last login: Sun Nov 13 23:45:29 2011 from FQDN > > I have never seen what I am indicating before and am wondering why this > would suddenly appear? Did you by any chance disable ipv6 by adding the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf ? net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 If so, try commenting that out and run: /sbin/sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf and see if that makes a difference. Akemi