Re: Exim panics

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 03 May 2012 18:07:05 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

> On 03/05/12 16:52, Camaleón wrote:

(...)

>> Check you "/etc/hosts" file. You should have this line which enables
>> the ipv6 loopback interface:
>>
>> ***
>> ::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ***
> 
> Yeah, it's commented out :)
> I can't now remember why I did that; but I think it might have been a
> problem with bind9...

Does bind9 have any problem with ipv6? I didn't notice, at least in my 
Lenny servers :-?

> I've uncommented it now; done ifdown/ifup, but still no inet6 addr on
> lo. Still, never mind...

I'm a curious cat O:-)

Mmm, then there must be something at a lower layer, I mean, maybe is that 
you have disabled the whole ipv6 support at the kernel.

I can see my two interfaces are getting an ipv6 address:

sm01@stt008:~$ cat /proc/net/if_inet6
00000000000000000000000000000001 01 80 10 80       lo
fe80000000000000023048fffed90827 02 40 20 80     eth0

And (from my Lenny):

sm01@stt008:~$ lsmod|grep ipv6
ipv6                  288456  26

Now I realize there's a wiki page in Debian explaining this ipv6 thingy:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6#How_to_turn_off_IPv6

Oh, and there's even a how-to for disabling ipv6 in Exim4. Too late, I'm 
afraid :-P

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón