After disabling ipv6 port forwarding does not work anymore

[inode77]

After having disabled ipv6 (sysctl) local port forwarding does not work anymore.

debug1: Local connections to LOCALHOST:8080 forwarded to remote address 127.0.0.1:80
debug1: Local forwarding listening on 127.0.0.1 port 8080.
debug1: channel 0: new [port listener]
debug1: Local forwarding listening on ::1 port 8080.
bind: Cannot assign requested address

This is not a behaviour I expected and it went away when I reenabled ipv6.
Please advise how to disable ipv6 but keep openssh functionality.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: openssh-client 1:5.5p1-4ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic-pae 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 7 14:30:02 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openssh

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

In the configuration file:

  AddressFamily inet

But disabling IPv6 is only going to get less and less sensible over the next couple of years ...

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

I'm marking this as 'Invalid' please re-open if Colin's fix did not work for you.