On 4 Aug 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> I've got a problem related to exim and IPv6:
>
> My machine has two global IPv6 addresses;
> There's a difference when I connect to the 3ffe address; in this case,
> everything works as it should, i.e. exim replies immediately. Oddly,
> when I do so, suddenly the 2001 address works too; if a connection was
> open at that time, it receives a 220 banner, while new connections will
> work perfectly for a while.
Are you starting exim from inetd (possibly xinetd) ?
If so, it chould be that exim is listening on both addresses,
but the inet daemon is only listening on 3ffe.
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