INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:42:25 -0800
> From: "Peter Wemm" <peter at wemm.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
> >  >         There is a reasonable chance that this mail will leave here
> >  >         over IPv6 for some of the recipients.  It will almost
> >  >         certainly travel over IPv6 for at least one hop.
> >  >
> >  >         Mark
> >
> >  It did:
> >  drugs.dv.isc.org -> IPv6 -> mx1.freebsd.org -> IPv6 -> hub.freebsd.org
> >  -> Mailman -> localhost -> hub.freebsd.org -> IPv6 -> mx2.freebsd.org
> >  -> IPv6 -> me
> >
> >  The only IPv4 hop in this path was when Mailman connected to localhost
> >  (127.0.0.1) to reinject the email.  And that is because I had
> >  127.0.0.1 hard coded in a config file.
> 
> Oh, one more thing.  If you are IPv6-enabled, you get to bypass the 10
> minute greylisting delay on mx1.freebsd.org.  Your email goes through
> instantly instead of potentially being delayed by 10-30 minutes.

Cool! That explains why most postings seem to take so long.

Hopefully this message made it through with no IPv4 hops.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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