How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 in name resolution for AAAA type queries?

2007-12-15 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
I am using Debian Lenny. $ uname -a Linux mylappy 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux I changed the "alias net-pf-10 ipv6" line to the following two lines. alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off After rebooting, I checked: lsmod | grep ipv6. Sure enough it is gone and the com

Re: How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 in name resolution for AAAA type queries?

2007-12-15 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
Could you please provide an example of a DNS server which I can install using aptitude? Is bind or bind9 fine for this job? I wonder why this problem doesn't occur with Ubuntu. If the community would be interested, I can send some logs from both my Debian and Ubuntu system for comparision. Or shou

Re: How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 in name resolution for AAAA type queries?

2007-12-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 08:21:13PM +0530, Amogh Hooshdar wrote: > After rebooting, I checked: lsmod | grep ipv6. Sure enough it is gone > and the command gives nil output. But when I use bitchx or pidgin to > connect to irc.freenode.net, I can still see DNS irc.freenode.net > type of queries.A

Re: How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 in name resolution for AAAA type queries?

2007-12-15 Thread Gerdriaan Mulder
Hello Amogh, As far as I know, there is not an easy way to disable ipv6 completely. On a Dutch forum (http://forum.pc-active.nl/viewtopic.php?p=171245&highlight=ipv6#171245) According to some posters, glibc causes this undesirable effect. Apparently there is no flag to be set to disable IPv6 looku

Re: How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 in name resolution for AAAA type queries?

2007-12-15 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
Here are some outputs from Ubuntu that works fine (sends A queries only) with ipv6 enabled and Debian that does not work fine (sends queries) with my DNS server. I have generated this output with the default settings of both Ubuntu and Debian. So, in the outputs below, you'll see ipv6 enabled

Re: How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 in name resolution for AAAA type queries?

2007-12-15 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 09:47:08PM +0530, Amogh Hooshdar wrote: > Could you please provide an example of a DNS server which I can > install using aptitude? Is bind or bind9 fine for this job? > > I wonder why this problem doesn't occur with Ubuntu. If the community > would be interested, I can sen

Re: How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 in name resolution for AAAA type queries?

2007-12-15 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Amogh" == Amogh Hooshdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amogh> Could you please provide an example of a DNS server which I Amogh> can install using aptitude? Is bind or bind9 fine for this Amogh> job? Yes. But, "lwresd" package is a