Need help with a DNS problem

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Tue Jun 8 22:30:00 UTC 2004


Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 13:50 6/4/2004, Andy Green wrote:
> 
>> On Friday 04 June 2004 20:44, Allen Winter wrote:
>> > is the 'install ipv6 /bin/true' method the preferred way to turn off 
>> ipv6?
>>
>> However that IS the official way to stop a module loading at the 
>> module level,
>> it effectively says t use /bin/true as the loader for the module, 
>> which does
>> nothing but return a happy retcode.  There is probably stuff
>> in /etc/sysconfig smewhere which can turn it off at a higher level.
> 
> 
> I have successfully turned off IPv6 using Andy's suggestion, and my 
> thanks to him.
> 
> However, I have not found any "cleaner" method of indicating to the 
> system that I have no intention or interest in running IPv6. Nothing in 
> /etc/sysconfig, for example. Does anyone know where I might nicely 
> indicate that to the system, or whether this is the 
> only/accepted/recommended way?

IPV6 is only supposed to load if /etc/sysconfig/network contains the
line:

	NETWORKING_IPV6=yes

If you don't want IPV6, delete that line or set it to

	NETWORKING_IPV6=no

BTW, a quick scan of /etc/rc.d/init.d/network would have revealed this.
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