[ale] ipv6 dns requests???

[Geoffrey]

Jim Philips wrote:
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> On Monday 19 April 2004 23:47, Geoffrey wrote:
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>>Okay, so I happen to notice that my web pages are taking a while to
>>start loading.  So, long story short, I'm looking at ethereal output and
>>see my machine making an ipv6 dns request, which, of course fails to my
>>ipv4 isp.  Then I see the ipv4 request which works.
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>>So the question is, why is my box doing this (suddenly??)  And more
>>important, how do I stop it?  I've checked out all the config stuff I
>>can find, but have not located the TURN_OFF_IPV6_DNS_REQUESTS flag
>>anywhere.
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> Do you have ipv6 turned on in your kernel config?

It's a stock SuSE kernel, thus I'm trying to figure out where the 
'control' mechanism is.  I assume that it is enabled in the kernel, but 
further assume that I should be able to disable it.

/proc/sys/net/ipv6 exists.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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