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

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Author: Adrian Phillips
Date:  
To: Marcin Owsiany
CC: exim-users, Mark Baker
Subject: Re: [Exim] information about Linux IPV6 name resolution problem
>>>>> "Marcin" == Marcin Owsiany <porridge@???> writes:

[Debian package maintainer CC'd]

    Marcin> On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 04:16:04PM -0500, Peter Radcliffe
    Marcin> 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).


    Marcin> So my problems might be because of a glibc bug? Has anyone
    Marcin> had problem similar to mine?


Yup, I believe this is the same as I've been seeing. Didn't think of
IP6. See :-

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=76074&repeatmerged=yes

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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