Re: [Exim] information about Linux IPV6 name resolution prob…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] information about Linux IPV6 name resolution problem
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote:

> from the portable OpenSSH FAQ;
>
> The glibc shipped with Redhat 6.1 appears to take a long time to
> resolve "IPv6 or IPv4" addresses from domain names. This can be
> kludged around with the --with-ipv4-default configure option. This
> instructs OpenSSH to use IPv4-only address resolution. (IPv6
> lookups may still be made by specifying the -6 option).


Hmm. If this is going to be a widespread problem, perhaps Exim should
have such an option too.

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