Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 23:10:25 +0300 (EEST) From: Ville Eerola <ve@sci.fi> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/18442: fetchmail problems with IPV6 and localhost Message-ID: <200005072010.XAA03623@vehome.pp.sci.fi>
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>Number: 18442
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: PATCH: fetchmail has problems with localhost when using IPV6
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun May 07 13:20:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ville Eerola
>Release: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD with IPV6 enabled, having 'localhost' in the /etc/hosts file
for both IP4 and IP6. Current fetchmail port.
>Description:
Takayuki Tamura <ttathome@remus.dti.ne.jp> reported:
| I recently updated to 5.0-CURRENT with both INET and INET6 enabled
| and found that fetchmail couldn't talk to local sendmail. The reason
| was that it tried to connect to sendmail via multiple addresses
| (families) corresponding to a hostname (i.e., `localhost').
Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com> also said:
| Fetchmail refused to work for me after a build world last night - I
| tracked it down to having 'localhost' in the /etc/hosts file for
| both IP4 and IP6. There was something in the fetchmail FAQ about
| multiple connections with the same name causing problems, and it
| definitely does with -stable as of today.
>How-To-Repeat:
Define localhost the /etc/hosts file for both IP4 and IP6, try to use
fetchmail from the current ports system.
>Fix:
Workaround as reported by Mike Harding:
Comment out the '::1' entry from /etc/hosts and it will work for now.
Real fix:
Apply this short patch as provided by Takayuki Tamura
<ttathome@remus.dti.ne.jp> reported:
--- fetchmail/patches/patch-ak.orig Fri Mar 3 14:12:37 2000
+++ fetchmail/patches/patch-ak Wed Apr 26 03:05:26 2000
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
close(i); /* don't use SockClose, no traffic yet */
! continue;
}
++ break;
+ }
+ ai = ai0;
#endif
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