Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 14 Aug 2000 02:42:03 +0900 (JST)
From:      Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>
To:        jhay@icomtek.co.za
Cc:        gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: sendmail updated from 8.9.3 to 8.11.0 in -current
Message-ID:  <20000814.024203.48797577.ume@mahoroba.org>
In-Reply-To: <200008131724.e7DHO9l17566@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
References:  <20000813.235732.59463473.ume@mahoroba.org> <200008131724.e7DHO9l17566@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>>>>> On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:24:09 +0200 (SAT)
>>>>> John Hay <jhay@icomtek.co.za> said:

> BTW, I love to see
> 
> 	DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA-v4, Family=inet')dnl
> 	DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA-v6, Family=inet6')dnl
> 

jhay> Yes that together with "CFLAGS+=-DNETINET6" in the sendmail/Makefile
jhay> and I have a working ipv6 mailer going.

Yeh!  I'm looking forward to see it.

jhay> There is just an annoying message because of the anycast
jhay> address:

jhay> Aug 13 16:38:47 angel sendmail[11947]: gethostbyaddr(3ffe:2900:fffa:4::) failed: 1

jhay> Is that because of a configuration error or just because sendmail needs
jhay> to check for anycast addresses? The machine is also a router between a
jhay> gif tunnel and this interface. My interface is configured like this:

jhay> angel# ifconfig de0 
jhay> de0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
jhay>         inet 146.64.84.9 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 146.64.84.255
jhay>         inet6 fe80::200:e8ff:fe15:dbed%de0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
jhay>         inet6 3ffe:2900:fffa:4:200:e8ff:fe15:dbed prefixlen 64 
jhay>         inet6 3ffe:2900:fffa:4:: prefixlen 64 anycast 
jhay>         ether 00:00:e8:15:db:ed 
jhay>         media: 10baseT/UTP status: active
jhay>         supported media: 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 10base2/BNC 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP

I don't see any configuration problem here.  As that machine is
a router, anycast address has been assigned.  (RFC2373)
I simply registered PTR RRs of my anycast addresses into DNS.
It may be good idea that sendmail checks for anycast address.

--
Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
ume@mahoroba.org  ume@bisd.hitachi.co.jp  ume@FreeBSD.org
http://www.imasy.org/~ume/


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000814.024203.48797577.ume>