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