Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:46:21 +0000 (UTC) From: fredb@immanent.net (Frederick Bruckman) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't get rid of IPv6 Message-ID: <crc7ed$4cq$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <002401c4f1c4$fc7ab240$6500000a@asdf>
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In article <002401c4f1c4$fc7ab240$6500000a@asdf>, "Richard Cadwalader" <richard@howitsdone.net> writes: > I need to get rid of IPv6 altogether. I have 5.3 current. > here is what it's doing: > browsing the net is imposible (signing into AIM, IRC, mail, > anything that uses a dns server is also imposible.) > takes forever to resolve by name, resolves in milisecnds > and loads the page in half a second when using IP > Here is what I did to try to fix it: > checked and edited all the config files (inetd.conf, resolve.conf) > no change Try this: route get -inet6 default and if there's something there, try route delete -inet6 default I think the automatic IPv6 autoconfiguration on FreeBSD is a little too ambitious. If you really don't have IPv6 connectivity, you shouldn't get a default route. That way, well-behaved applications can move on to the IPv4 address quickly, rather than waiting for TCP to timeout. As a bonus, you can then still use link-local or even site-local addresses (on the same link) for NFS or other experiments. In any case, deleting the (bogus) default route should probably give you immediate relief. Frederick
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