IPv6 and IPv4 resolver preferences

Joe Orton jorton at redhat.com
Thu Sep 16 21:18:19 UTC 2004


On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 12:58:22PM -0700, Steve G wrote:
> >Will this change anytime soon? Any comments on this?
> 
> If you want IPv6 prefered over IPv4, go into /etc/resolv.conf and set 
> 
> options inet6

You really don't want to do that, Dave -- it breaks applications using
gethostbyname() e.g. /bin/ping.

joe





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