>>>>> On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:28:20 +0200 (SAT)
>>>>> John Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> jhay> There is just an annoying message because of the anycast address:
>
> jhay> Aug 13 16:38:47 angel sendmail[11947]: gethostbyaddr(3ffe:2900:fffa:4::)
>failed: 1
>
> jhay> Is that because of a configuration error or just because sendmail needs
> jhay> to check for anycast addresses?
>
> sendmail tries to get the hostnames associated with all of it's interfaces
> to populate $=w (local host names). The best fix would be to create an
> entry in DNS for that address. Perhaps sendmail shouldn't bother warning
> on multicast addresses. Can you see if this patch makes the error go away?
>
jhay> I tried your second patch, but it didn't make a difference.
Please try this patch.
Index: sendmail-8.11.0/sendmail/conf.c
diff -u sendmail-8.11.0/sendmail/conf.c.orig sendmail-8.11.0/sendmail/conf.c
--- sendmail-8.11.0/sendmail/conf.c.orig Sun Jul 16 02:35:18 2000
+++ sendmail-8.11.0/sendmail/conf.c Mon Aug 14 05:34:18 2000
@@ -4771,6 +4771,11 @@
# undef __P
# endif /* (_AIX4 >= 40300) && !defined(_NET_IF_H) */
# include <net/if.h>
+#if NETINET6 && !defined(SIOCGLIFCONF)
+# include <net/if.h>
+# include <net/if_var.h>
+# include <netinet/in_var.h>
+#endif /* NETINET6 && !SIOCGLIFCONF */
#endif /* defined(SIOCGIFCONF) && !SIOCGIFCONF_IS_BROKEN */
void
@@ -5009,6 +5014,9 @@
# if NETINET6
char *addr;
struct in6_addr ia6;
+# ifdef SIOCGIFAFLAG_IN6
+ struct in6_ifreq ifr6;
+# endif /* SIOCGIFAFLAG_IN6 */
# endif /* NETINET6 */
struct in_addr ia;
# ifdef SIOCGIFFLAGS
@@ -5093,6 +5101,22 @@
addr == NULL ? "(NULL)" : addr);
continue;
}
+
+# ifdef SIOCGIFAFLAG_IN6
+ memset(&ifr6, '\0', sizeof(struct in6_ifreq));
+ strncpy(ifr6.ifr_name, ifr->ifr_name,
+ sizeof(ifr->ifr_name));
+ ifr6.ifr_addr = sa->sin6;
+ if (ioctl(s, SIOCGIFAFLAG_IN6, &ifr6) < 0)
+ {
+ if (tTd(0, 4))
+ dprintf("SIOCGLIFFLAGS failed: %s\n",
+ errstring(errno));
+ continue;
+ }
+ if (ifr6.ifr_ifru.ifru_flags6 & IN6_IFF_ANYCAST)
+ continue;
+# endif /* SIOCGIFAFLAG_IN6 */
/* save IP address in text from */
addr = anynet_ntop(&ia6, buf6, sizeof buf6);
--
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