Hi all,
I had a weird problem a while ago that after installing
FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE sendmail was not accepting local mail
for delivery.
After looking at "mail -v <user>" I saw that sendmail was
not accepting relaying for the localhost. Now I could
telnet to localhost on port 25 and that worked so SMTP
itself was running.
The problem turned out to be that in /etc/hosts the following
was missing:
::1 localhost
Now I thought that maybe that was an isolated problem with
FBSD4.6 but I install 4.7 last night (Mini ISO) and had the
exact same problem. The /etc/hosts file did not have ::1
I have been told that the ::1 is a IPV6 loopback? Is that
correct? Why would it seem to be missing from the install?
Regards,
Alistair.
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