On 2008-04-11, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Bernhard R. Link: > >> I think the main problem is that Debian is by default setting up those >> ipv6 stuff into the interface even when you are in an pure ipv4 >> environment. That way exim4 cannot do anything to avoid ipv6 stuff >> and evil things like this can happen. > > Yes, I agree this is a problem, because IPv6 still doesn't work out of > the box because IPv6 networking is initialized too late in the boot > process.
How so? Do you mean a situation such as * no inet6 stanzas configured in /etc/network/interfaces * a daemon attempts to bind to an AF_INET6 socket late in the boot process * the kernel helpfully autoloads ipv6.ko * the kernel helpfully binds a "scope link" inet6 address to each network interface and performs router solicitation ? It's primarily the configuration of those "scope link" inet6 addresses which cause problems, right? Would loading ipv6.ko with net.ipv6.conf.all.autoconf = 0 help? -- Robert Edmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
