Issue with sendmail -- ip6.arpa queries rejected, ip6.int works.

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

>>>>> On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 05:01:27 -0500 (EST), 
>>>>> "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm at prime.gushi.org> said:

>>> Okay, so a minor bit of research shows that it's an upgrade to glibc
>>> that's required.  Which under FreeBSD is...ugly, basically means a massive
>>> upgrade.
>> 
>> Which version of FreeBSD and sendmail are you using?  As far as I
>> know, released versions of FreeBSD have never used bitstring labels.

> FreeBSD prime.gushi.org 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0: Fri 
> Sep 10 21:53:55 EDT 2004 
> danm at prime.gushi.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PRIME49  i386

At least this version of resolver library should not use bitstring
labels.  But I was told off-list that you were using glibc (instead of
FreeBSD's system libc) for sendmail.  Is that correct?  If so, the
glibc implementation is likely the source of the trouble (while I'm
not sure about that part since I don't know much about the resolver
implementation of glibc).  In this case, the trivial solution is to
avoid using glibc, of course.  If you need to stick to glibc for some
reason, I don't know the best answer.  But since glibc in this case is
just a third-party library, it seems to me not so difficult to upgrade
the glibc version in your environment.

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp