Turning off ipv6 -- !!DO IT!! [was: Need help with a DNS problem]
John Lagrue
admin at moraystudio.com
Sun Jun 20 22:30:46 UTC 2004
Sean Estabrooks wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:43:01 -0700
>Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>>On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:30, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>A quick glance at the contents of /etc/init.d and /etc/sysconfig seems
>>to show that this is the way that system initialization is *supposed* to
>>work, but it looks that it isn't the way that it *does* work, at least
>>under FC2. On my system, /etc/sysconfig contains:
>> $ cat /etc/sysconfig
>> NETWORKING=yes
>> HOSTNAME=amito.localdomain
>>but lsmod definitely shows that ipv6 *is* loaded.
>>
>>
>>
Fascinating. On my FC2 system /etc/sysconfig is a directory. So what
file in particular are we talking about here?
JDL
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