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From: "Curt Micol" <asenchi@gmail.com>
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Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How to stop my services from trying to bind to IPv6?
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Redd Vinylene <reddvinylene@gmail.com> wrote:
> I use the default sshd config file, I'd rather not maintain one.
>
> As for my named.conf, I haven't enabled no IPv6 setting there either.
>
> Perhaps an ipv6_enable="NO" in rc.conf will do the trick?
>
> Honestly though, shouldn't FreeBSD assume I don't use IPv6 unless I
> tell it that I do?

Nope, quite the opposite.  IPv6 is in a lot of services, and keeping
it on is a good idea (at least imho).  In rc.conf you can set many
*_flags to listen on IPv4.   For example:

sshd_flags="-4"

You could also simply block all traffic on IPv6 (in pf):
block all inet6

HTH,

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# Curt Micol