Bug 469507

Summary: Sendmail's access doesn't treat 2001:db8:0:: same as 2001:db8:0000::
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
Component: sendmailAssignee: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Robert Scheck 2008-11-01 18:24:38 UTC
Description of problem:
Sendmail's access doesn't treat 2001:db8:0:: same as 2001:db8:0000:: - for 
example: Put

  FEATURE(`require_rdns')

into /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, after that put

  Connect:[IPv6:2001:db8:0000]     OK

into /etc/mail/access and reload sendmail. Try to deliver an e-mail from the
IPv6 network 2001:db8:0000/32, it will fail. Change line in /etc/mail/access
to:

  Connect:[IPv6:2001:db8:0]     OK

and reload sendmail again. Now try to deliver another e-mail from the network
2001:db8:0000/32, it will succeed. Unluckily 2001:db8:0:: and 2001:db8:0000::
are exact the same. It is just like 127.000.000.001 and 127.0.0.1. And what I
configured above would be in IPv4 something like this: "Connect:127.000 OK"
vs. "Connect:127.0 OK". - where the first doesn't work and the second does...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sendmail-8.14.3-1

How reproducible:
Everytime, see above. Also reproducible without any IPv6 connection from a
localhost, just configure a IPv6 address e.g. from the IPv6 documentation 
prefix as I used for this bug report as well.

Actual results:
Sendmail's access doesn't treat 2001:db8:0:: same as 2001:db8:0000::

Expected results:
Sendmail should see 2001:db8:0:: and 2001:db8:0000:: as the same as it really
is the same.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 04:36:55 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 2 Robert Scheck 2008-12-02 23:17:54 UTC
Miroslav, ping?

Comment 3 Miroslav Lichvar 2008-12-03 16:32:59 UTC
I can reproduce it, but I'm not really sure it's a bug.

The address is looked up in the map file as returned by inet_ntop() which uses zeroes only when necessary and the file has the addresses stored in text, exactly as specified in the access file. To perform any simplifications on the addresses makemap would have to understand the data it's writing to db file.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 09:50:30 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-03-15 12:08:06 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 13 development cycle.
Changing version to '13'.

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Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 18:16:26 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

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Comment 8 Robert Scheck 2014-07-20 20:27:45 UTC
The issue still exists, but this can not be solved without major changes in
this part in Sendmail - which is definately not downstream's job. Right now,
Sendmail is not aware about the kind of information - which would be needed.