Re: [Exim] getipnodebyaddr

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Patrice Fournier
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] getipnodebyaddr
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Patrice Fournier wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I see that Exim 4.02 uses getipnodebyname when available in IPv6 mode, but
> it doesn't use getipnodebyaddr to do reverse lookup. On Linux, (at least
> for the one I have), gethostbyaddr doesn't work with IPv6 and the man page
> refer to getipnodebyaddr... could Exim use this function if available?


I'll look into doing something similar (there's a HAVE_GETIPNODEBYNAME
switch, which I see is currently defaulted only for Solaris and OSF1).


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