From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 10:27:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662E116A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:27:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.reppep.com (www.reppep.com [66.92.104.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2970843D2F for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:27:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pepper@reppep.com) Received: from [129.85.219.160] (salt.rockefeller.edu [129.85.219.160]) by www.reppep.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01D810020; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:27:30 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: pepper@mail.reppep.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040322114520.A95963@tfat.homelinux.org> References: <20040322114520.A95963@tfat.homelinux.org> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:27:21 -0500 To: Teodor Iliescu From: Chris Pepper Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unexpected inet6 in FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:27:32 -0000 At 11:53 AM -0500 2004/03/22, Teodor Iliescu wrote: >On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Chris Pepper wrote: > >[...] > >> This is causing me some aggravation, as localhost connections >> (such as "apachectl fullstatus") are from "[client ::1]" instead of >> the old-fashioned 127.0.0.1. To my surprise, >> >> >> doesn't talk about rc.conf at all, and I'm not sure where else this >> would be set up. >> > >Try commenting out (#) ::1 from /etc/hosts, which is loopback for IPv6. Teodor, Thanks for the suggestion. I commented out ::1 and rebooted. Unfortunately, ifconfig still shows inet6 configured on xl0. FWIW, www, which does not show inet6, also has the ::1 entry in /etc/hosts, so there's something else different. >If you want to get more experimental, you can go ahead and completely >remove IPv6 support from your kernel, although I don't see this as >necessary. Nah, I don't want to break IPv6, just turn it off. Chris -- Chris Pepper: Rockefeller University: