Eliminating IPv6 (?)

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Wed Jun 19 20:39:51 UTC 2019


19.06.2019 23:18, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

>> 19.06.2019 3:57, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>
>>> And god only knows how much will break once I've done that.
>>
>> IPv6 will break only.
> 
> That is incorrect, scripts that would silently do nothing can
> now infact fail, trust me, first hand experience.  This can
> have consequences beyong "IPv6 will break only".
> 
>>>  How many other
>>> people have tested -all- of the resulting binaries, seriously, on actual
>>> production systems?  (I may be the first one ever, at least for 12.0.)
>>
>> I ran plenty of hosts with IPv6 disabled this way and no problems observed, but this pre-dates 12.0.
> 
> I've not run a userland without V6 in a long time once I started to have
> issues with some things.

Can you give an example of such script in base system, please?

If you have such script or binary not in our base, it's not our fault :-)



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