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: 12/10/2000 17:38:05
>On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:36:04AM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
>> 	not sure if it applies cleanly (1.5 ships with sendmail 8.11.0 I
>> 	believe, while current uses 8.11.1), but anyway, here are the changes.
>It applied with just some line offsets. Thank you. Could it
>be that there is another part which tries to reverse-lookup
>link local IPv6 addresses?
>If sendmail *receives* mail, there is still this strange
>lookup for the link local address of the interface by
>which the mail is received.

	i'll look into it.  if you can check which gethostbyname() call is
	the source, it would be really helpful.
	(are you sure that you are running newly compiled sendmail as daemon?
	did you restart it after recompilation?)

itojun