Re: disabling aaaa queries

From: Jerry Smiley (jsmiley_at_nc.rr.com)
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:27:56 GMT

Walter Hofmann wrote:

> Jerry Smiley <jsmiley@nc.rr.com> schrieb:
>> Walter Hofmann wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> it seems that my Debain unstable computer queries for an AAAA record
>>> (ie. ipv6), waits for a timeout, and only then queries for the A
>>> record (ie. ipv4) address whenever it needs to resolve a name in DNS.
>>>
>>> Of course every network application is delayed by this. How can I switch
>>> this off?
>>>
>>> I read the man page for resolv.conf, and it says that this is switched
>>> _on_ by adding the line "options inet6" to /etc/resolv.conf. But I
>>> checked and this line is not there. So why is it doing ipv6 queries?
>>>
>>> Walter
>>
>> Try adding in the /etc/modules.conf
>>
>> alias net-pf-10 off
>> alias ipv6 off
>
> This didn't work. I added these lines and also rebooted to make sure
> that the ipv6 module was not loaded, but nothing changed.
>
> Any other help?
>
> Walter
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