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

[John Lagrue]

Sean Estabrooks wrote:

>On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:43:01 -0700
>Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
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>>On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:30, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>    
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>>>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.
>>
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>>
Fascinating. On my FC2 system /etc/sysconfig is a directory. So what 
file in particular are we talking about here?

JDL