Re: [exim] AAAA Lookup despite primary_hostname being set in…

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Author: Tom Kistner
Date:  
To: Marc Haber
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] AAAA Lookup despite primary_hostname being set inconfiguration
Marc Haber schrieb:

> In some situations, I find the system sending out an AAAA query to the
> DNS resolver for the local host name when exim starts up. stracing
> exim nailed this down to a gethostbyname2 call with AF_INET6 for the
> local host name.


Are there aliases for ::1 and eventual link-local or global IPv6
addresses in /etc/hosts?

No sure why the lookup is needed, but try debugging with +resolver,
maybe that gives some further hints.

/tom