On 02/08/2010 10:16 AM, Tom H wrote: >> There's lots of variegated advice around on turning off ipv6, much of it >> out of date. What's the canonical way of doing this in Fedora (12), or >> at least getting named to shut up about it? >> > ipv6 is now compiled into the kernel so all the previous advice about > modprobe.conf, modprobe.d, and sysctl.conf no longer works. > > You now have to > (1) add > ipv6.disable=1 > to the kernel (grub1) or linux (grub2) line > or > (2) recompile the kernel without ipv6 or with ipv6 as a module > I created /etc/modprob.d/blacklist-ckj.conf (ckj being my initials) containing: # Blacklist additions by ckj # block ipv6 being loaded blacklist ipv6 That worked for me with kernel 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE without the kernel argument in grub, so I don't believe ipv6 is compiled into the kernel. I've not tested the kernel argument, but that may be preferable. In addition there is an '-4' argument for named to preclude its use of IPv6. You can edit /etc/sysconfig/named to add that argument: OPTIONS=-4 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
