On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Lutz Pressler wrote:
> I'm afraid, but the change in IPv6 socket initialization
> (46 b of ChangeLog-4.14)
> Exim calls getaddrinfo() instead of inet_pton() to convert a textual
> IPv6 address for actual use. This function recognizes the percent
> convention in some operating systems.
>
> seems to have broken IPv6 support on (older) Linux systems.
Sigh.
> Tested on a SuSE 7.3 system with latest available glibc (2.2.4)
>
> configure-file containing
> "local_interfaces = <; 0.0.0.0 ; 2001:638:603:abcd::1"
My tests only use
local_interfaces = <; 127.0.0.7 ; ::1
and that works on Solaris 8. I will try testing with other values, just
to make sure it's not something general that I have screwed up.
> Maybe it is necessary to make the old mechanism optionally available, too?
Since getaddrinfo() is now called in just one place, changing it should
be relatively simple.
But I'm also waiting to hear if other people hit this problem...
Philip
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