Re: upgrade? broke exim4 [SOLVED] Addendum
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 05:13:59PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: Back in February I ran across a note on the Debian Wiki that turning off ipv6 would speed up Iceweasel which is a real dog on dialup. With that in mind I put this 'net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 = 1' in /etc/sysctl.conf. Setting it to 0 and rerunning 'sysctl -p' got my fetchmail/exim4 connection working again. Now I guess I need to figure out if I can tell exim not to use ipv6 and if so how. root@/deb73:~ ed /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf #dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1 ; ::1' dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1' root@/deb73:~ update-exim4.conf root@/deb73:~ service exim4 restart now exim4 NOT listening on ::1:25 only 127.0.0.1:25 root@/deb73:~ ed /etc/sysctl.conf net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 = 1 root@/deb73:~ sysctl -p Sent myself emails through my ISP both as root and mike. Rebooted just to double check and am able to retrieve mail so I think the problem is really solved and Iceweasel won't be slowed down by checking for nonexistant ipv6 traffic. Thanks again to you friendly helpers, Mike -- Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140605231030.GA3708@playground
Re: upgrade? broke exim4 [SOLVED]
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:34:23PM +0200, Filip wrote: It tries to bind to the ipv6 adress of the local interface. Maybe ipv6 is disabled in your system. Do you see the ::1 address when you run 'ip addr' ? Hi Filip, You hit the nail on the head. I didn't understand that in the message: 'socket bind() to port 25 for address ::1 failed' '::1' implied ipv6. Back in February I ran across a note on the Debian Wiki that turning off ipv6 would speed up Iceweasel which is a real dog on dialup. With that in mind I put this 'net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 = 1' in /etc/sysctl.conf. Setting it to 0 and rerunning 'sysctl -p' got my fetchmail/exim4 connection working again. Now I guess I need to figure out if I can tell exim not to use ipv6 and if so how. Many thanks to all who replied, Mike -- Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. - Romain Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140605001359.GA14023@playground
