Issue with sendmail -- ip6.arpa queries rejected, ip6.int works.

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
Mon Dec 5 08:58:00 UTC 2005


>>>>> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:11:20 -0500 (EST), 
>>>>> "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm at prime.gushi.org> said:

>>> Hey all --
>>> 
>>> I'm using the same zonefile in my sendmail configs for both ip6.int and
>>> ip6.arpa (for the localhost ::1 entry)
>> 
>> Upgrade your gethostbyaddr() implementation. bitstring labels were
>> a pain to work with and were moved to experimental.

> No kidding :)

> Okay, so a minor bit of research shows that it's an upgrade to glibc 
> that's required.  Which under FreeBSD is...ugly, basically means a massive 
> upgrade.

Which version of FreeBSD and sendmail are you using?  As far as I
know, released versions of FreeBSD have never used bitstring labels.

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp



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