Strange sendmail behaviour after upgrade to 9.1-BETA2

Pavel Timofeev timp87 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 1 08:41:55 UTC 2013


to Matthew Seaman
No luck

root at test:/etc/mail # grep ip /etc/rc.conf
#ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="NO"
#ipv6_network_interfaces="none"
ip6addrctl_enable="YES"
ip6addrctl_policy="ipv4_prefer"

root at test:/etc/mail # ip6addrctl
Prefix                          Prec Label      Use
::1/128                           50     0        0
::/0                              40     1        0
::ffff:0.0.0.0/96                100     4        0
2002::/16                         30     2        0
2001::/32                          5     5        0
fc00::/7                           3    13        0
::/96                              1     3        0
fec0::/10                          1    11        0
3ffe::/16                          1    12        0

I stress, this is fresh system which was installed from official BETA2
img and I didn't configure anything else. It's default system.

2013/8/1 Pavel Timofeev <timp87 at gmail.com>:
> I tried, but it didn't work.
> # grep ip /etc/rc.conf
> ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="NO"
> ipv6_network_interfaces="none"
> ip6addrctl_enable="NO"
> ip6addrctl_policy="ipv4_prefer"
> # ip6addrctl show
> no source-address-selection policy is installed
>
> Or I did it wrong?
>
> 2013/7/31 J David <j.david.lists at gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Pavel Timofeev <timp87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've just installed new fresh 9.2-BETA2 amd64 on another machine.
>>> Same behavior - Sendmail asks DNS only for AAAA record of mx server.
>>
>> We also noticed one of our machines suddenly started using IPv6 to
>> send outbound email (from Postfix rather than Sendmail) after it was
>> upgraded from 8.4 to 9-STABLE a bit ago.
>>
>> I think there's been a change in the default IPv6 behavior between 8
>> and 9.  Probably one of the many important things in UPDATING that
>> always seems to slip past me.
>>
>> We use IPv6 extensively, so we were pleased after the initial
>> surprise, but if you don't then ip6addrctl is probably the right
>> temporary answer until you do.


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