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From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:33:23 -0400
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On 29 Aug 2002 at 11:27, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:

> That explains it.  You have a record pointing localhost.example.org at ::1
> but your sendmail daemon isn't listening for IPv6 connections and worse yet
> your host appears to drop instead of reject connection attempts.  My guess
> is you have IP firewalling enabled (either IPFW or IPF) and default to drop
> or have ip6fw or ipf rulesets that effectively to do the same.

I am using ipf with "pass out from any to any/pass out from any to 
any".

FWIW: in this case localhost.example.org is the DNS server for my 
private LAN.
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Dan Langille
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