Unexpected inet6 in FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE

Joshua Lokken joshua at twobirds.us
Mon Mar 22 11:20:25 PST 2004


* Matthew Emmerton <matt at gabby.gsicomp.on.ca> [2004-03-22 10:54]:
> 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,
> > >>
> > >
> > >Try commenting out (#) ::1 from /etc/hosts, which is loopback for IPv6.

Close.


> >
> > 	Nah, I don't want to break IPv6, just turn it off.
> 
> If you want to turn if off, remove it from your kernel.


I think what you want to comment out is the line in httpd.conf that
reads:

Listen ::1


-- 
Joshua

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