Subject: Re: Sendmail delivery funny
To: NetBSD current-users mailing list <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.demon.co.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 11/05/2000 11:56:44
I wrote :
> I've rebuilt my server with 1.5BETA (from 1.4U) and now I'm seeing odd
> behaviour with sendmail.  When sendmail tries to deliver a mail message,
> it opens connections to the mail relay with a TTL of 0.  Eventually, after
> these time out, it opens a normal connection and the mail is delivered.
> The problem is exacerbated because the mail relay has 9 machines in its A
> record, so it takes about 10 minutes to deilver a mail message.

Hmm, more info.  I think the connections that have TTL 0 are IPv6.
`ifconfig` shows :

ppp0: flags=8151<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1524
        inet 212.228.127.249 -> 158.152.1.222 netmask 0xffffff00
        inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fe09:6caf%ppp0 -> :: prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3

J

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