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Author: Florian Weimer
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Potential logic error in retry handling for IPv4+IPv6 hosts
* Marc Sherman:

>> Does this problem sound familiar?
>
> Very familiar. It happened to me in June[0], and we were just
> discussing it again earlier this week[1].


Ah, the good old morphogenetic field.

> Anyway, while Philip will probably have some questions for you to help
> track down and debug the problem, there is an easy workaround in your
> host has no real IPv6 connectivity:
>
> http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20051128/msg00043.html


I'm the one who has working IPv6 connectivity, it's other hosts I'm
worried about. 8-/

Note that the failing domains I've seen so far have an MX record
pointing to an A/AAAA combination, and it seems that Exim somehow
applies the AAAA retry hint to the A host, possibly if the A host is
temporarily unreachable as well.