On Sat, 25 May 2019 17:43:15 -0400 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> Amanda may well work that way, but if the networking event gets a > faint whiff of ipv6, it won't assign a route to the ipv4 setup. > local host work fine, a dns lookuo is stuck in your shirt pocket and > the network hardware is wasting power doing zip. Odd. My Debian 9.9 (stretch) machines all have ipv6 configured, unused and unwanted. The firewall configuration for ipv6 shuts the interfaces down utterly. I get to ignore it completely. Nor does it affect amanda. But I use ssh for amanda. -- "When we talk of civilization, we are too apt to limit the meaning of the word to its mere embellishments, such as arts and sciences; but the true distinction between it and barbarism is, that the one presents a state of society under the protection of just and well-administered law, and the other is left to the chance government of brute force." - The Rev. James White, Eighteen Christian Centuries, 1889 Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB https://charlescurley.com