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From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
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On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Michael W. Oliver wrote:

> On 2004-11-21T11:31:44-0500, Robert Huff wrote:
>> David Jenkins writes:
>>>> ipv6_enable="YES" is defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, so you
>>>> have to define ipv6_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf to realize any
>>>> change.
>>>
>>>  Not on my system (RELENG_5_3)...
>>>
>>>  # cat /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep ipv6_enable
>>>  ipv6_enable="NO"                # Set to YES to set up for IPv6.
>>
>> 	Affirmed for -CURRENT.
>
> Yeah, you guys are right... as far as I can tell, it's always been set
> to "NO" in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.  Sorry 'bout that.

Not only that, but it appears not to matter. I'm running 4.10 on this 
machine (same as the OP), with ipv6_enable="NO" in /etc/defaults/rc.conf 
and nothing to override it in /etc/rc.conf. Yet the machine booted with 
IPv6 enabled. Only when I disabled IPv6 in the kernel did v6 stop trying 
to happen. This also had the effect of speeding up name resolution by 
Mozilla and friends, which IIRC was the OP's issue in the first place.


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