On 24 Jan, 2006, at 6:45 PM, Adrian Portelli wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I think you're right in that it looks like your box can get a v4  
> address
> for mail.distal.com but can't get a v6 address for it.  I tested this
> myself with a default 8.13.5 config and came across the same issue.  I
> usually use IPv4/IPv6 addresses as arguments to Addr, not  
> hostnames, so
> I can only guess as to why your seeing the different behaviour between
> 8.13.3 on 2.1 and 8.13.5 on 3.0.  Some ideas:
>
> The hosts files could have been different between the two boxes  
> i.e. one
> included a v6 entry for mail.distal.com and the other didn't.

   Nope.  I did an upgrade by unpacking the tarballs of 3.0 by hand, so
it's the same host file.  :-)

> One of the DaemonPortOptions could have included a Modifier=O which  
> will
> silently fail when trying to bind to the v6 address but still run.

   Nope.  The MSA DaemonPortOptions incl M=E, but nothing with =O.
And, I wouldn'tve expected the behaviour to change really.  I really
do suspect this is a bug...

> If you specify IP addresses for the Addr options then the problem  
> should
> go away.

   Right.  And I've done this for the time being, but would like to use
DNS to my advantage, rather than having to change YA thing
when/if my IP addresses change.

   Thanks.  If anyone else has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.  I
don't know if/when I'll get the time to track this one down...

                                   - Chris