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Subject: Re: "postfix-current" broken on amd64 platform
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Kurt Jaeger:
> Hi!
> 
> > > >   Postconf opens a socket to determine the mynetworks value (it
> > > >   determines the local interfaces and their netmasks).
> 
> [quote
>  http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2011-11/0385.html]
> > > >   I have heard about bizarre errors on FreeBSD (jail) systems where
> > > > the user-land library was out of sync with kernel-land, resulting
> > > > in data structure mis-matches and system calls returning
> > > > nonsensical results.
> 
> > > Is it a clever idea to hardcode local interfaces on build machine
> > > into a package that will then be redistributed to other machines?
> 
> No.

Postfix does none of that. 

Can someone please explain what socket call is failing, and what
the reasons for that might be? 

I tend to believe that network-less build environments are not
representative for the environment where an Internet MTA would run,
but hey, what do I know.

	Wietse