Re: [Exim] IPv6 ?

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Author: Lionel Elie Mamane
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To: Daniel O'Neill
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] IPv6 ?
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:38:41PM +0000, Daniel O'Neill wrote:

> Actually, it's not a 'bug' really,


Exim should have decent defaults. Defaulting to not starting on USAGI
Linux kernels, is at the very least bad behaviour.

> How do you get around this? Well, you could bind to the independant
> IP addresses, or if you really want to bind every interface, simply
> bind to [::] and take confidence in the fact your IPv4 is bound
> along with it.


No, this doesn't work portably. Binding to :: on a BSD machine does
NOT listen for IPv4 connects! It does on Linux, but one should not
rely on it.

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Lionel