Unexpected inet6 in FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE
Matthew Emmerton
matt at gabby.gsicomp.on.ca
Mon Mar 22 10:46:38 PST 2004
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Chris Pepper wrote:
> 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.
If you want to turn if off, remove it from your kernel.
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Matt Emmerton
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