gene heskett wrote: > Greetings folks; > > Let me say first that I'm around 150 miles from any ipv6 capable network, > just to get that out of the way. > > Its booted to a text login and the first thing I did was import a saved > copy of the hosts file, and added rpi4-20220122.coyote.den with an alias > of rpi42 to that file. Then I edited /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0 to > set a static address, and added a dns-nameserver 192.168.xx.1 line to it, > my router and gateway, and a second additional line to set /proc/sys/ > net/.../eth0/disable_ipv6 to a 1. And I've checked, disable_ipv6 is now a > 1. > > But that's not enough, ip a, after a /e/i/networking restart, still shows > its active, so I assume its sending its dns request out the ipv6 portal > and my router is a dummy load for anything ipv6. So I can ping all the > local machines, but cannot look up yahoo.com. >
I'm not sure - I think dns uses mostly ipv6 - but I can't tell for sure. I have it on my todo list to get familiar with ipv6 and until then I also refuse to use it. > So question one: > So what is the official, works in bookworm every time, way to totally > kill ipv6, making it use ipv4 for everything? > AFAIR it is a module (or could be compiled as module) so disabling ipv6 will nuke it > This ought to be in a faq somewhere. Except everybody has their own > method. :( > > And question 2: > I noticed also, there is not a first user, can I assume the first time > adduser gets run it will assign him/her/it as user 1000 AND will put that > user into sudoers? > yes first user will have ID 1000, but I am not sure it is added automatically to sudoers > Again, this is the 20220121 bookworm. > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- FCD6 3719 0FFB F1BF 38EA 4727 5348 5F1F DCFE BCB0
