Re: [exim] No route to host - but msg sent successfully

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> sam wun wrote:
>
>> I don't know why I got error "No route to host" when sending email to
>> the exim-users mailing list this morning, but the msg is sent
>> successfully as I can see it listed in the public now. I only get
>> this message after installed exim4.4 yesterday and leave it for
>> overnight.
>> The error is;
>> 2004-10-21 08:10:51 1CKQXX-00066D-L4 sesame.csx.cam.ac.uk
>> [2001:630:200:8080:20e:cff:fe09:a58a]: No route to host
>
>
> The exim.org mailserver (sesame.csx.cam.ac.uk) has an IPv6 address
> (the one above) and an IPv4 address - the familiar dotted quad IP.
>
> Your server doesn't have an IPv6 IP / IPv6 transit anywhere, so you
> can't send mail to sesame.csx over IPv6. Once your exim finds that out
> it retries sending mail over IPv4 and that gets through.
>
I see, thanks for the answer. I remember I didn't configure the ethernet
card for IPV6 support.

Thanks
Sam