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

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Marc Haber
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] AAAA Lookup despite primary_hostname being set in configuration
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:25:04 +0200, Tom Kistner <tom@???>
wrote:
>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?


This is our default /etc/hosts:
|127.0.0.1      localhost.localdomain localhost
|127.0.1.1      myhost.localdomain myhost
|
|# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
|::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
|fe00::0 ip6-localnet
|ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
|ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
|ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
|ff02::3 ip6-allhosts


The 127.0.1.1 was, IIRC, added a few years ago for exim.

Greetings
Marc

-- 
-------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! -----
Marc Haber         |   " Questions are the         | Mailadresse im Header
Mannheim, Germany  |     Beginning of Wisdom "     | http://www.zugschlus.de/
Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834