Bug 23817

Summary: Sendmail 8.11 ignores host lookup order when compiled with IP6
Product: Base System Reporter: bremner <bremner>
Component: binAssignee: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.2-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description bremner 2000-12-24 22:00:01 UTC 
	Sendmail 8.11 refuses to look at /etc/hosts, no matter the contents
	of /etc/host.conf and /etc/sendmail.cf.  For machines without 
	a live DNS connection, this means either a hang, or a spurious 
	connection attempt (using e.g. ppp -auto)

Fix: here is a patch to /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/Makefile that 
disables IPv6. Presumably the real fix is to debug sendmail.
How-To-Repeat: 
	start sendmail. To verify DNS lookup is taking place, 
	you can enable DNS logging in ppp.conf
Comment 1 Gregory Neil Shapiro freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-02-05 01:14:37 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->gshapiro

Given to sendmail maintainer
Comment 2 Gregory Neil Shapiro freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-02-22 06:35:29 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->analyzed

I believe I found the problem in sendmail and will contact the reporter 
with a patch to try.
Comment 3 Gregory Neil Shapiro freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-02-28 02:59:15 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: analyzed->feedback

The fix for this problem was included in sendmail 8.11.3, currently available 
in the HEAD (-CURRENT) of the repository.  I will close this problem report 
after it has been MFC'ed into RELENG_4 (-STABLE).
Comment 4 Gregory Neil Shapiro freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-03-13 21:09:30 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

sendmail 8.11.3, which has this fixed, has been MFC'ed into RELENG_4