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Greetings, |
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I do not know why my machine suddenly local uses IPv6 instead of IPv4. I |
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noticed it today when I was unable to retrieve mail. syslog now shows |
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xinetd[3763]: START: pop-3 from=::1 |
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instead of the former |
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xinetd[3761]: START: pop-3 pid=22632 from=127.0.0.1 |
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and 'telnet localhost pop3' fails unless I force IPv4 with |
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'telnet -4 localhost pop3'. |
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I was unable to find the place where I could change this behavior, so I |
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used a dirty trick. |
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----- /etc/hosts ----- |
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# IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases |
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127.0.0.1 localhost |
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# ::1 localhost |
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Commenting out the last line helped and I could get my mails. But that |
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is really a dirty trick. *g*. |
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I have never used IPv6, I don't intend to and I have forgotten most of |
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what I may have known about the issue. Hopefully on of you knows the |
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right way. |
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Hartmut |