Reviving an old thread from 2011-09: Mark Martinec: > Trying to install postfix on an IPv6-only host > FreeBSD 9.0B1, http://wiki.freebsd.org/IPv6Only > ports: mail/postfix-current, > but the installation chokes in the post-install phase. > Running that failing command manually (in the ports work directory) > gives: > # bin/postfix -v post-install > postfix: name_mask: ipv4 > postfix: name_mask: host > postfix: inet_addr_local: configured 0 IPv4 addresses > postfix: fatal: could not find any active network interfaces
Wietse Venema wrote: > The built-in default enables IPv4 only, to avoid headaches with > systems that have IPv6 support but no external IPv6 connectivity. > Lookup up AAAA addresses would be wasteful, and trying to connect > to them would be pointless. > > A workaround is to do the same thing as when local_recipient_maps > was introduced: the inet_protocols built-in default different from > the installed configuration. > > In this case, the built-in default would enable IPv6, while the > post-install installed configuration is IPv4 only (but post-install > would not change an explicit inet_protocols main.cf setting). > > I was hoping this approach would make its way into current eventually ... >It will. I have added the note to the wishlist. I thought this was implemented in current by: | HISTORY | 20110914 | Incompatibility: the default inet_protocols value is now | "all" instead of "ipv4", meaning use both IPv4 and IPv6. | As a compatibility workaround for sites without global IPv6 | connectivity, the commands "make upgrade" and "postfix | upgrade-configuration" append "inet_protocols = ipv4" to | main.cf when no explicit setting is present. This compatibility | workaround will be phased out in a future release. Files: | util/sys_defs.h, conf/post-install, proto/postconf.proto. | | Incompatibility: the default smtp_address_preference value | is now "any" instead of "ipv6", meaning choose randomly | between IPv6 and IPv4. With this the Postfix SMTP client | will have more success delivering mail to sites that have | problematic IPv6 configurations. Files: global/mail_params.h, | proto/postconf.proto. ... but apparently it was not in its entirety. Trying to install postfix-2.9-20111219 from ports on FreeBSD 9.0 (with an inet6-only kernel), the installation fails as before: postfix-current$ make install ... Skipping /usr/local/share/doc/postfix/postfix-power.png... Skipping /usr/local/share/doc/postfix/scache.8.html... Skipping /usr/local/share/doc/postfix/tlsmgr.8.html... postfix: fatal: could not find any active network interfaces *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/postfix-current. or manually in the /usr/ports/mail/postfix-current/work/postfix-2.9-20111219 : # bin/postfix -v post-install postfix: name_mask: ipv4 postfix: name_mask: host postfix: inet_addr_local: configured 0 IPv4 addresses postfix: fatal: could not find any active network interfaces > It will. I have added the note to the wishlist. So ... Dear Santa ... :) Mark
