Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:04:38 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca> To: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unexpected inet6 in FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE Message-ID: <20040322140407.X76571@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <p0610100abc84dfe78ebe@[129.85.219.160]> References: <p06100f02bc8423c4a116@[66.92.104.201]> <20040322114520.A95963@tfat.homelinux.org> <p0610100abc84dfe78ebe@[129.85.219.160]>
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On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Chris Pepper wrote: > 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, > >> > >><http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ipv6.html>; > >> 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. If you want to turn if off, remove it from your kernel. -- Matt Emmerton
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