Re: Exim and IPv6 Help

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsdtech@bsws.de>]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:19:18PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:23:51 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 
> > Please go ahead and try. Whether or not it is the long-term solution, we
> > need to know whether an IPv6 socket can be made to listen to an
> > IPv6-mapped IPv4 address.
> 
> Weird stuff abounds. :-)
> 
> I've just double-checked, and Exim's definitely binding to the
> wildcard address in such a way as to accept both IPv4 and IPv6
> connections.
> 
> Note, however, that I have the system tunable (sysctl)
> net.inet6.ip6.v6only set to 0.

This is exactly the problem - we don't have this switch on OpenBSD. See it
like always 1.

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