From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 20:00:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD20D16A56F for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:00:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D41743D45 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:00:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ClYNp-0002Zh-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:00:53 +0100 Received: from c-67-162-1-86.client.comcast.net ([67.162.1.86]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:00:53 +0100 Received: from fredb by c-67-162-1-86.client.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:00:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: fredb@immanent.net (Frederick Bruckman) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:46:21 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <002401c4f1c4$fc7ab240$6500000a@asdf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-1-86.client.comcast.net X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Sender: news Subject: Re: Can't get rid of IPv6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 20:00:55 -0000 In article <002401c4f1c4$fc7ab240$6500000a@asdf>, "Richard Cadwalader" 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