Re: [Exim] Overhaul of FreeBSD port for Exim

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Author: Philip Blundell
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To: Sheldon Hearn
CC: Barry Pederson, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Overhaul of FreeBSD port for Exim
>No such luck. When IPv6 support is not compiled into the kernel, Exim
>fails to bind and listen to the IPv4 port:
>
>2001-06-12 19:13:30 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any) failed: Invalid
> argument: waiting before trying again


Hmm. This is supposed to work (it does on Linux, and I guess Solaris).
If you get as far as the bind() before blowing up, FreeBSD must be returning
success for "socket(AF_INET6, ...)" even when IPv6 is not available. That
seems like a bug in your kernel.

p.