amavis ldap trouble in process_request do_search

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Friday, April 05, 2013 12:19 PM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount 
<quanah at zimbra.com> wrote:

> I would note that "inet6" is not valid, and may cause problems, with
> newer Net::LDAP installations.

Specifically, IIRC, it changed meaning.  In older releases, it meant that 
Net::LDAP could support inet6.  In later releases, it means IPv6 *only*. 
This resulted in errors like:

Jan 25 12:10:41 zqa-062 amavis[18883]: (18883-01) (!)connect_to_ldap: 
unable to
connect to host ldap://zqa-062.eng.vmware.com:389
Jan 25 12:10:41 zqa-062 amavis[18883]: (18883-01) (!!)TROUBLE in
process_request: connect_to_ldap: unable to connect at (eval 116) line 149.
Jan 25 12:10:41 zqa-062 amavis[18883]: (18883-01) (!)Requesting process 
rundown
after fatal error
Jan 25 12:10:41 zqa-062 postfix/smtp[6710]: 15D00183B97:
to=<afilatau at zimbra.com>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10026, delay=0.1,
delays=0.04/0.01/0.01/0.04, dsn=4.3.2, status=deferred (host
127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 421 4.3.2 Service shutting down, closing channel 
(in
reply to RCPT TO command))


on IPv4 only systems.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
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