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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