Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:28:12 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail and smarthost Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1203011325220.293@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1203011239020.99803@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202270840590.65453@wonkity.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1203011239020.99803@wonkity.com>
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Warren Block wrote: > >> In 8.3-PRERELEASE, sendmail is now happily ignoring a smarthost unless >> DONT_PROBE_INTERFACES is set. That used to be unnecessary. >> >> That machine rarely sends email, but a bug followup sent on Feb 25 went >> through. Maybe not significant since it was outside the local domain. > > Adding an IPv6 entry for the hostname to /etc/hosts prevents the problem > without requiring DONT_PROBE_INTERFACES. (Thanks to George Shapiro!) > > This brings up the question of why an IPv6 hosts entry is needed on an > IPv4-only system, but that's for another thread. Or not, updating and rebuilding seems to have everything back to normal. Most likely I built a GENERIC kernel with IPv6 instead of a custom one without.
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