Re: Exim or inetd bug ?
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 09:27, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Nicolas DEFFAYET wrote:
Hello,
> > I use Exim (3.35-3) with netkit-inetd (0.10-9) and openbsd-inetd
> > (0.20020802-1) on Debian Woody.
>
> I have no problem in such environment. openbsd-inetd works fine for me.
> Of course is the backport we are talking about and not the official pkg.
>
> >
> > Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.ndsoftware.net) (3ffe:4013::4::3) by
> > mail1.ndsoftware.net with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 25 Dec 2002
> > 20:39:32 -0000
> >
> > 3ffe:4013::4::3 is not a valid IPv6 address.
> > => Why Exim don't add in header a valid IPv6 address ?
>
> that looks strange. Are you assigning different prefixes to your boxes?
> dig gives out completly different ip's for these 2 machine.
> It seems like an error in the dns or something like that more than an exim
> problem.
3ffe:4013:0:4::3 is on eth0, other IPs are on lo.
I think that it's a parsing bug.
real IP - Exim header
3ffe:4013:0:4::3 - 3ffe:4013::4::3
3ffe:4013:0:4:0:1::3 - 3ffe:4013::4::1::3
> > When a mail server is available in IPv4 and IPv6, Exim use IPv4 address.
> > => Why Exim don't preferer IPv6 address ?
>
> If the other endpoint can be resolved both ipv4 and ipv6 then exim will do
> a sort of dns roundrobin. Are you sure 100% that the other endpoint is
> listening on ipv6?
Yes. I don't have this problem with qmail (patched for IPv6).
Best Regards,
--
Nicolas DEFFAYET, NDSoftware
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