Subject: Re: Sendmail and IPv6 was Re: DNS issues with Mozilla
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Ian P. Thomas <ipthomas@mac.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/10/2002 12:25:04
Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2002 ipthomas@mac.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>>On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:02:54PM +0100, Andrew Basterfield wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Try disabling IPv6 on the NetBSD machine (or better still get a free
>>>>IPv6 tunnel with freenet6.net, but remember the IPv6 firewall!)
>>>
> 
>>	Seeing as how the culprit is IPv6, when I disable it in the kernel
>>and recompile, how do I get sendmail to behave and not produce an error
>>message on startup?  I have seen mention of sendmail's problems with
>>IPv6 by searching on Google, but I didn't see a fix for them.  The error
>>is
>>
>>opendaemon socket : daemon MTA6 : can't create server SMTP socket
> 
> 
> It's seems to be only a warning, but if it bothers you, just build a
> new sendmail.conf from an "mc" file without this line:
> 
>   DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet6, address=::, Name=MTA6, Modifiers=0')dnl
> 
> See "/usr/share/sendmail/README" (for descriptions of the options),
> and "/usr/share/sendmail/cf/netbsd-proto.mc" (which is used to
> generate the NetBSD installed "/etc/mail/sendmail.conf").
> 
> Frederick
> 
> 

	Eliminating those lines eliminated the error message.  Mozilla is now 
rendering all pages quickly without intermittent pauses while resolving 
some names.  Thanks for everyones help.

Ian