current-users: Re: sendmail: strange IPv6 reverse lookup (1-5-RELEASE)

Subject: Re: sendmail: strange IPv6 reverse lookup (1-5-RELEASE)
To: Ingolf Steinbach <ingolf@jellonet.de>
From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: current-users
Date: 11/30/2000 18:36:58

>on NetBSD-1.5, sendmail causes strange reverse lookups for
>IPv6 addresses:
>The interface is configured as follows.
># ifconfig we1
>we1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        media: Ethernet 10base5
>        inet 192.168.2.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
>        inet6 fe80::200:c0ff:fe20:6b63%we1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>        inet6 fec0::200:c0ff:fe20:6b63 prefixlen 64
>The query issued at 22:22:17.562950 seems to be ok for me.
>But what about the others?

	it seems that sendmail is using result from SIOCGIFCONF incorrectly.
	i'll try to look at it (sendmail shouldn't reverse-lookup DNS for
	link-local address, anyways).

itojun