[Pkg-exim4-users] dc_minimaldns not working?

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:43:52AM +0100, Lothar Ketterer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:36:57PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Does exim also do these lookups when you start up a new daemon? If so,
> > please use tcpdump or tshark to find out what exactly your exim is
> > trying to look up.
> 
> It looks for an AAAA record for my hostname (apothekerknecht2).

Interesting. I have installed etch r2 in a virtual machine, and see
the AAAA lookups as well. However, when I dpkg-reconfigure exim4 for
minimaldns, the AAAA lookups seem to vanish on my test system.

> Looks like everything works fine now, but is this the correct way to do
> it? I ask because localhost has a different IPv4 address (127.0.0.1)
> than my hostname (127.0.1.1) which has been discussed in the (far)
> past, see bug #316099 and #247734 (you are mentioned in the discussion).

I would think that there should be a different loopback address for
IPv6 as well, but I don't know enough about IPv6, and for me, setting
minimaldns eliminates the lookups on exim startup

> Anyway, what is responsible for setting up /etc/hosts? The installer?

parts of the installer, either finish-install or netcfg.

> Then why is an IPv6 entry for the hostname given during installation
> missing?

I guess because it hasn't been implemented yet.

Sorry that I am not a big help. I do not see the issue

Greetings
Marc

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