Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-12 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Andrew Parker wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Paul Allen Newell > wrote: > >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >>> I prefer changing something in /etc/sysctl.conf because it's clearly >>> where this kind of configuration change belongs. Changing ifcfg-eth0 may >>> or may not work

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 17:31 +1000, Dan Irwin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > No doubt IP6 will eventually arrive because it will become necessary, > > but the chances of a significant number of end-users "demanding" it are > > close to zero > > And w

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 21:45 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 14:10 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: [...] > But it seems that there should be a "Fedora-approved" way to not deal > with ipv6 rather than all of us having "best solutions". If anyone

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-11 Thread Andrew Parker
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> I prefer changing something in /etc/sysctl.conf because it's clearly >> where this kind of configuration change belongs. Changing ifcfg-eth0 may >> or may not work at the moment -- I'm guessing it probably d

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-10 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Dan" == Dan Irwin writes: Dan> Clearly it provides a benefit. Clearly? it's not clear to me. -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users G

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-10 Thread Dan Irwin
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > No doubt IP6 will eventually arrive because it will become necessary, > but the chances of a significant number of end-users "demanding" it are > close to zero And while none of the users who have a need ask (eg: yourself) the ISPs w

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 14:10 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> To disable ipv6 on F12 on the next reboot just add the line net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 to your /etc/sysctl.conf file. To dis

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-10 Thread Tom H
>> To disable ipv6 on F12 on the next reboot just add the line >> net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 >> to your /etc/sysctl.conf file. >> To disable it right away issue the command >> sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 >> To disable ipv6 on just one interface (for example eth0) issue the

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 14:10 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > >> To disable ipv6 on F12 on the next reboot just add the line > >> > >> net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 > >> > >> to your /etc/sysctl.conf file. > >> > >> To disable it right away issue the command > >

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> To disable ipv6 on F12 on the next reboot just add the line >> >> net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 >> >> to your /etc/sysctl.conf file. >> >> To disable it right away issue the command >> >> sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 > Thank you. That looks lik

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 09:08 +0100, Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: > Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 10:12 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: > > I know ipv6 is going to be in all our futures, but for the moment it's > > just a PITA. My ISP doesn't support it and my /var/log/messages is > > overflowing with comp

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 22:24 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > inode0 wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Tom H wrote: > > > >> Blacklisting ipv6 may not be enough to disable it completely; ipv6 can > >> still be loaded with insmod/modprobe. > >> > >> If you add > >> install ipv6 /bin/tr

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 18:31 +1000, Dan Irwin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > I know ipv6 is going to be in all our futures, but for the moment it's > > just a PITA. My ISP doesn't support it > > If you're ISP doesn't support it, you should connect to a t

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-10 Thread Dan Irwin
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I know ipv6 is going to be in all our futures, but for the moment it's > just a PITA. My ISP doesn't support it If you're ISP doesn't support it, you should connect to a tunnel broker. Fedora is most capable of doing that, though there

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-10 Thread Henry Ritzlmayr
Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 10:12 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: > I know ipv6 is going to be in all our futures, but for the moment it's > just a PITA. My ISP doesn't support it and my /var/log/messages is > overflowing with complaints from named (I run the basic caching > nameserver configurat

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-09 Thread Paul Allen Newell
inode0 wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Tom H wrote: > >> Blacklisting ipv6 may not be enough to disable it completely; ipv6 can >> still be loaded with insmod/modprobe. >> >> If you add >> install ipv6 /bin/true >> to the blacklist entry, it will not load at all. >> > > I think i

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-09 Thread inode0
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Tom H wrote: > Blacklisting ipv6 may not be enough to disable it completely; ipv6 can > still be loaded with insmod/modprobe. > > If you add > install ipv6 /bin/true > to the blacklist entry, it will not load at all. I think insmod will still load it even in that

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-09 Thread Tom H
>> ipv6 is now compiled into the kernel so all the previous advice about >> modprobe.conf, modprobe.d, and sysctl.conf no longer works. >> You now have to >> (1) add >> ipv6.disable=1 >> to the kernel (grub1) or linux (grub2) line >> or >> (2) recompile the kernel without ipv6 or with ipv6 as a mo

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 11:53 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I'll try that, but since it just affects the logging, does this mean > > that named is still trying to do ipv6 lookups all the time? > > Only if you are visiting a IPv6-capable site, but such lookups ret

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I'll try that, but since it just affects the logging, does this mean > that named is still trying to do ipv6 lookups all the time? Only if you are visiting a IPv6-capable site, but such lookups return immediately since you have no IPv6 route. There will not be any in

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 09:00 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I know ipv6 is going to be in all our futures, but for the moment it's > > just a PITA. My ISP doesn't support it and my /var/log/messages is > > overflowing with complaints from named (I run the basic ca

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-08 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
On 02/08/2010 10:16 AM, Tom H wrote: >> There's lots of variegated advice around on turning off ipv6, much of it >> out of date. What's the canonical way of doing this in Fedora (12), or >> at least getting named to shut up about it? >> > ipv6 is now compiled into the kernel so all the previo

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-08 Thread Tom H
> There's lots of variegated advice around on turning off ipv6, much of it > out of date. What's the canonical way of doing this in Fedora (12), or > at least getting named to shut up about it? ipv6 is now compiled into the kernel so all the previous advice about modprobe.conf, modprobe.d, and sys

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I know ipv6 is going to be in all our futures, but for the moment it's > just a PITA. My ISP doesn't support it and my /var/log/messages is > overflowing with complaints from named (I run the basic caching > nameserver configuration). Are you seeing messages like this?