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

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, JINMEI Tatuya / [ISO-2022-JP] ¿ÀÌÀãºÈ wrote:
>>>>>> 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.

FreeBSD prime.gushi.org 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0: Fri 
Sep 10 21:53:55 EDT 2004 
danm at prime.gushi.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PRIME49  i386

%telnet 127.0.0.1 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 prime.gushi.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.5/8.13.5; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 05:00:49 
-0500 (EST)

Sendmail compiled with SASL, IPV6, SSL.

-Dan

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