BIND - disabling IPv6 lookups

[Damien Fleuriot]

Hello list,


I'm currently experiencing this very weird behaviour with BIND 9.8.7
running on 10-STABLE and, obviously, installed from ports.


I'm trying to prevent BIND from trying to resolve AAAA resource records.

To this effect, I've added :
named_flags="-4" to /etc/rc.conf, as the man page and several google
searches suggest [1]


After restarting BIND, I see it's come back alive with the correct startup
flag :
/usr/local/sbin/named -4 -u bind -c /usr/local/etc/namedb/named.con


However, I still see queries for AAAA records :
13:39:26.990819 IP 10.104.10.252.54566 > 195.158[snip].53: 43577+ [1au]
AAAA? www.tvsembox.com. (45)

Is that expected behaviour ?
And yes, 10.104.10.252 is the actual FreeBSD box, not a client host trying
to resolve stuff.


[1]
https://www.sbarjatiya.com/notes_wiki/index.php/Disabling_IPv6_lookups_in_bind