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Date:      Mon, 20 May 2002 13:54:28 -0500
From:      Damon Anton Permezel <dap@damon.com>
To:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.6-* sendmail misfeatures
Message-ID:  <20020520135428.H962@damon.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020520184010.GD70468@cicely5.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:40:11PM %2B0200
References:  <20020520105154.E962@damon.com> <20020520184010.GD70468@cicely5.cicely.de>

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On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:40:11PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:51:54AM -0500, Damon Anton Permezel wrote:
> > So, in violation of the networking "be liberal in what you accept and
> > conservative in what you produce", sendmail in it's new form will have many
> > perplexed sysadmins spending lots of time tracking down these mysterious
> > failures.
> > 
> > I suggest that the version of sendmail configs shipped with FreeBSD
> > should default to having WorkAroundBrokenAAAA set by default.
> 
> That would break v6 support and only works for sendmail just to handle
> broken nameservers.
> If someone has running a broken nameserver - that's their problem.
> If you don't want programms to ask for v6 records then build a kernel
> without v6 support at all.

Ok.  Explain to me how this breaks v6 support?

Also, as far as I know, I *have* built a system with no v6 support.

I have been running systems for years now with ipv6 interfaces, and
I do not believe I have ever exchanged an IPv6 packet with anyone, so
I nolonger include v6.

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