Postfix can't open AF_INET6 socket when IPV6 is disabled
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Feb 23, 2017, 1:06:44 PM2/23/17
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Our hosts have ipv6 enabled but do not have any ipv6 routing out of their subnet. Because of some problems with postfix looking up AAAA records, we disabled ipv6 in our postfix with "inet_protocols = ipv4" (replacing "inet_protocols = all") while leaving IPV6 enabled on the host. Immediately smtpd began failing with the error "postfix/smtpd[12616]: fatal: cannot handle socket type AF_INET6 with "inet_protocols = ipv4"
Why would postfix try to create AF_INET6 sockets with ipv6 disabled?
We're running postfix 2.6.6 which is the most recent version that ships with CentOS 6.8. Is this a bug that has been fixed in a later release?
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Could this be because the default /etc/host file in CentOS 6 when IPV6 is enabled contains two entries for localhost?