[Pkg-exim4-users] Connecting IP address

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:31:19PM +0000, Iain Mac Donald wrote:
> The snipped example output of exim4 -d+interface -bt
> somebody at somedomain.com
> 
> Actual local interface address is 127.0.0.1 (lo)
> Actual local interface address is 91.xxx.xxx.20 (eth0)
> Actual local interface address is 91.xxx.xxx.21 (eth0:0)
> Actual local interface address is 91.xxx.xxx.22 (eth0:1)
> Actual local interface address is 91.xxx.xxx.23 (eth0:2)
> Actual local interface address is ::1 (lo)
> Actual local interface address is [IPv6 address] (eth0)

What does "ip addr" say?

> I have two questions - where does the IPv6 entry come from

I could give a definitive answer if you hadn't obfuscated your
request, see http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/DontObfuscate.

With the current state of affairs I can only guess that this is an
autoconfigured link local IPv6 address.

> and why does the 91.xxx.xxx.23 address get used?

The output of ip addr might help here.

I generally configure a "primary" IP address with correct netmask and
additional ones with a /32 netmask to keep them from being used for
outgoing connections.

Greetings
Marc

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