BIND 9.3.1 - How to get rid of AAAA querys?

[Andreas Pettersson]

Mark Andrews wrote:
>> When looking in the querylog for BIND 9.3.1 running on FreeBSD 5.4, 
>> almost every other log entry specifies an AAAA query. The only client is 
>> localhost. I see no reason right now to have BIND wasting resources on 
>> IPv6 requests, so I added
>>
>> named_flags="-4"
>>
>> to rc.conf and restarted named. Sockstat tells me named is listening 
>> only on udp4 and tcp4, but I still get lots of AAAA entries in the querylog:
>>
>> 12-Sep-2007 21:40:47.129 client 127.0.0.1#60103: query: 
>> smtp.secureserver.net IN AAAA +
>> 12-Sep-2007 21:40:47.648 client 127.0.0.1#64489: query: 
>> smtp.where.secureserver.net IN AAAA +
>> 12-Sep-2007 21:40:47.847 client 127.0.0.1#61673: query: 
>> smtp.secureserver.net IN A +
>> 12-Sep-2007 21:40:47.869 client 127.0.0.1#53040: query: 
>> mailstore1.secureserver.net IN AAAA +
>> 12-Sep-2007 21:40:47.871 client 127.0.0.1#54473: query: 
>> mailstore1.secureserver.net IN A +
>> 12-Sep-2007 21:40:58.261 client 127.0.0.1#58124: query: 
>> 120.86.248.87.in-addr.arpa IN PTR +
>> 12-Sep-2007 21:40:58.340 client 127.0.0.1#56511: query: 
>> static-ip-87-248-86-120.promax.media.pl IN AAAA +
>> 12-Sep-2007 21:40:58.410 client 127.0.0.1#61212: query: 
>> static-ip-87-248-86-120.promax.media.pl IN A +
>>
>> What can I do to get rid of these?
>>     
>
> 	Teach each and every application not to make them. :-)
>   

Thanks to everyone who has answered. As soon as I read the first 
sentence in Max's reply I realized the issue, and I might now have 
reconsidered my "problem" as a "no problem" :-)
> [snip]
> 	Why don't you go the other way and get yourself IPv6
> 	connectivity.  You do realise that you will require it to
> 	reach many sites in about 3 years time as they will be IPv6
> 	only

For almost 10 years I've heard discussions about the successor to IPv4, 
but from my point of view (may differ from others..) not much has 
happened. Of course, I can imagine that when the wheel starts rolling 
for real things might change quickly. 3 years may prove to be correct, 
but are there any clear signs pointing in this direction?

-- 
Andreas