Unexpected inet6 in FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE

[Chris Pepper]

At 11:53 AM -0500 2004/03/22, Teodor Iliescu wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Chris Pepper wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>>	This is causing me some aggravation, as localhost connections
>>  (such as "apachectl fullstatus") are from "[client ::1]" instead of
>>  the old-fashioned  127.0.0.1. To my surprise,
>> 
>><http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ipv6.html>
>>  doesn't talk about rc.conf at all, and I'm not sure where else this
>>  would be set up.
>>
>
>Try commenting out (#) ::1 from /etc/hosts, which is loopback for IPv6.

Teodor,

	Thanks for the suggestion.

	I commented out ::1 and rebooted. Unfortunately, ifconfig 
still shows inet6 configured on xl0.

	FWIW, www, which does not show inet6, also has the ::1 entry 
in /etc/hosts, so there's something else different.

>If you want to get more experimental, you can go ahead and completely
>remove IPv6 support from your kernel, although I don't see this as
>necessary.

	Nah, I don't want to break IPv6, just turn it off.


						Chris
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