On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> I have localhost in my /etc/hosts, but I get the following errors when I use
> fetchmail with Exim 3.02. I just upgraded from 2.11 and then the problem
> started.
>
> 1999-06-24 22:30:57 connection from [::ffff:127.0.0.1] refused
> (::ffff:127.0.0.1 does not match any IP address for localhost)
> 1999-06-24 22:30:57 connection from [::ffff:127.0.0.1] refused
> (::ffff:127.0.0.1 does not match any IP address for localhost)
>
> What can I do to correct this?
Oh dear. IPv6 strikes in anger. I'm afraid I don't have an IPv6 set up
at the moment, so cannot do the right kinds of test. The error means
that Exim looked up the host name for the IP address ::ffff:127.0.0.1
and obtained "localhost". Then, it cross-checked by looking up
"localhost" to see if that really was its IP address, and it didn't find
it.
This is an infelicity in Exim, I guess. When doing this check it ought
to notice IPv4 addresses in IPv6 format, and do the check accordingly.
I will add this to the list of problems to look at.
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