On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:14:27AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
...
> With the help of the IPv6 developer list I finally found the real
> solution: Woody versions of some Debian packages, like telnet,
> and, it seems, exim, *require* IPv6 addresses for your local
> machines (including localhost!) in /etc/hosts, or they will call
> your ISP to ask for them. And of course your ISP's nameservers
> don't have them either. Specifying local lookup ("files") in
> /etc/nsswitch.conf does not help.
Thanks for clearing this up, but...
> So if your /etc/hosts is, for instance:
,,,
> 192.168.1.3 venus.my.home venus
>
> Then at the end of the file you have to add
...
> ::FFFF:192.168.1.3 venus.my.home venus
...now there is one name with to addresses, how will other programs react
to that. e.g. dnsmasq?
--
groetjes, carel
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