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| author | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2005-11-21 12:04:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2005-11-21 12:04:23 +0000 |
| commit | d27f1df3feb4ff58a8e3948b91797111d62f73e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 4784eb1f7b28fbd3e2f69d86f0e417b456bea67a /doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog | |
| parent | df199fec8faee495664d153096dff38faf3ba3ad (diff) | |
Mend comparison bug for canonical vs non-canonical IPv6 addresses.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog index 824a8d3eb..75826bdac 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.266 2005/11/21 10:24:02 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.267 2005/11/21 12:04:23 ph10 Exp $ Change log file for Exim from version 4.21 ------------------------------------------- @@ -151,6 +151,16 @@ PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists (Bugzilla #53). +PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated + canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from + the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with + addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did + have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6 + addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could + fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison + by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of + the text comparison. + Exim version 4.54 ----------------- |