On 2016-12-02, Henning Follmann <hfollm...@itcfollmann.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I do have a weird issue. First the story. > > I switch a new debian install (jessie) from the /etc/network/interfaces > setup over to systemd-networkd. In addition I also enabled systemd-resolvd. > The address assignment happens via DHCP and the nameserver is correctly > entered into /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf which is linked to > /etc/resolv.conf. Great! > > This setup works as expected. I do have connectivity and I can resolve > names. > One thing changed, the host picked up a link local ipv6 ( FE80::/10). > > > Now almost everything works, postfix has an issue though. > postfix delivers everything via a smarthost and here it fails. > The mails are stuck in the mailq and the error message is that it could not > get a AAAA record for the smarthost. That is actually correct because the > smarthost has no AAAA record in the zone it has however a A record. > This I do not understand. Why is postfix stuck with a ipv6 nxdomain while > it could resolv the normal ipv4 address. > I checked with nslookup on that host. It resolves just fine. >=================================== > nslookup -querytype=AAAA mail.itcfollmann.com > Server: 10.0.11.212 > Address: 10.0.11.212#53 > > *** Can't find mail.itcfollmann.com: No answer >=================================== > nslookup mail.itcfollmann.com > Server: 10.0.11.212 > Address: 10.0.11.212#53 > > Name: mail.itcfollmann.com > Address: 52.7.212.38 >================================== > > Why does postfix even try to get the AAAA record. Documentation states > actually that if not provided t defaults to: > inet_protocols = ipv4
What documentation are you using? The online documentation[1] and 'man 5 postconf' states that the default value is "all". 1: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html -- Liam
