On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 08:25:12PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote
> I think the two of you are talking past each other. What did Arsen mean
> by "the vague concept of IPv6"? I suspect he meant:
>
> You are trying to solve a concrete user issue with your browsing.
Correct.
> Your idea of how to sol
On 9/25/24 6:21 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>> There is no reason to disable IPv6 support, as Eli said (especially if
>> yo do not know _what_ you're trying to disable, and are just trying to
>> blanket-disable a vague concept of IPv6).
>
> This is *NOT* about a "vague concept". This is about solvin
On 2024-09-24 21:42:23, Eli Schwartz wrote:
>
> Please do not disable the USE=ipv6, as that is *utterly* insane. It also
> does approximately nothing. In packages which support this USE flag,
> which is rare, it causes the code to use old, untested APIs which only
> support ipv4, rather than new,
On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 01:53:49PM +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote
> I suspect your Firefox anecdote happened due to misconfiguration
> (I think network.http.fast-fallback-to-IPv4 dictates the use of this
> algorithm in Firefox).
I do not recall ever touching it in about:config. In my current
bro
Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I was trying to re-emerge some packages. The ones I was working on
> failed with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault" or similar
> being the common reason for failing. I did get gcc to compile and
> install. But other packages are failing, but some are compiling
Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I posted the other day about my email setup. Then it hit me, while I
> copied the settings over, I never tested it. So, I tested it. Sure
> enough, no email sent. Got error messages tho. I mostly, maybe only,
> use this for SMART drive info. If it detects failure or prob
On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 09:42:23PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote
> If you actually want to disable ipv6, instead of insanely rebuilding
> binaries to use untested broken segfaulting code, use the sysctl
> knob to tell the kernel "when asked to give some application a bit
> of internet traffic, don't u
On 9/25/24 6:00 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> My system is actually very stable. In the shitstorm that erupted on
> this list at "ipv6" enabling I did not see any mention of sysctl. In my
> /etc/default/grub file I have...
>
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="noexec=on net.ifnames=0 ipv6.disable=1"
>
>
On 9/25/24 7:26 AM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
On 9/25/24 6:00 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>My system is actually very stable. In the shitstorm that erupted on
> this list at "ipv6" enabling I did not see any mention of sysctl. In my
> /etc/default/grub file I have...
>
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
Walter Dnes writes:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 09:42:23PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote
>
>> If you actually want to disable ipv6, instead of insanely rebuilding
>> binaries to use untested broken segfaulting code, use the sysctl
>> knob to tell the kernel "when asked to give some application a bit
>>
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