** Description changed:

  When sendmail is configured with both IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces, it can
  fail to deliver to any hosts that have a CNAME as an MX record that
  resolves only to an A record with no AAAA record.
  
  An existing example of this is here:
  http://serverfault.com/questions/482035/sendmail-issue-with-ipv6
+ 
+ IMPACT: if ipv6 is routable, sendmail suddenly cannot deliver email to a
+ subset of servers with slightly misconfigured MX records.
+ 
+ TEST CASE:
+ - bring up routable ipv6 interface
+ - install and configure sendmail-bin
+ - Run "date | sendmail -v -Am -d61.14 -d16.14 
[email protected]"
+ - observe failure "makeconnection: cannot bind [IPv6:nnnnn....]: Address 
family not supported by protocol"
+ 
+ REGRESSION POTENTIAL: low. This is an upstream patch backported
+ specifically for this version of sendmail. Proper operation is trivially
+ verifiable.

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Title:
  attempts to bind to wrong interface for CNAME-to-A-only MX when ipv6
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