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:

> 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


Does tweaking the ::1 line to say

::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback myhost.localdomain myhost


prevent asking the resolver for the quad-A?

I don't know how /etc/hosts is supposed to work wrt to AAAA records, but
that seems to be a logical resolution.

/tom