Re: Turning off ipv6

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On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 09:08 +0100, Henry Ritzlmayr wrote:
> Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 10:12 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> > I know ipv6 is going to be in all our futures, but for the moment it's
> > just a PITA. My ISP doesn't support it and my /var/log/messages is
> > overflowing with complaints from named (I run the basic caching
> > nameserver configuration).
> > 
> > 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 out of date.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?
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> 
> To disable ipv6 on F12 on the next reboot just add the line
> 
> net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
> 
> to your /etc/sysctl.conf file.
> 
> To disable it right away issue the command
> 
> sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
> 
> To disable ipv6 on just one interface (for example eth0) issue the
> command
> 
> sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6=1
> 
> or enter the line 
> 
> net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6 = 1 
> 
> in your /etc/sysctl.conf file for the next reboot

Thank you. That looks like the Right Way (tm) to do it.

poc

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