Re: Exim and IPv6 Help

[Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> However, this doesn't look like "a shortcoming in OpenBSD".  Rather, it
> seems to me that Exim should use one socket per family at least.  That's
> certainly what most of the IPv6-enabled code in the FreeBSD base system
> appears to do, and some even uses one socket per address.

You can make Exim use one socket per address. Just set local_interfaces.
However, at present it always uses an IPv6 socket, and maps IPv4
addresses. I will make it more flexible, since it seems that the
transition isn't going the same way on all systems.

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