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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] AAAA Lookup despite primary_hostname being set in configuration
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:03:42 +0100, Graeme Fowler <graeme@???>
wrote:
>On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 10:23 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> I'd like to know how I can make exim refrain from doing this lookup.
>> Is this possible from configuration, and why is the lookup done in the
>> first place?
>
>Global option "disable_ipv6 = true"


Debian Policy says that IPv6 must not be disabled. I think that's ok
if one wants to promote ipv6.

>I believe that if Exim is permitted to bind to all interfaces, and
>there's an IPV6 interface (whether explicit or automatically assigned)
>then it'll do AAAA lookups.


Why does it do these lookups?

Greetings
Marc

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