Turning off ipv6 -- !!DO IT!! [was: Need help with a DNS problem]

[Travis Fraser]

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 18:30, John Lagrue wrote:
> 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
> 
I think he means /etc/sysconfig/network.