On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:00:22 +0000 Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 07:03:51PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:51:18 -0400 > > Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > you can tell named to use only IPv4 by editing > > > /etc/default/named > > > and adding "-4" to the OPTIONS variable - eg: > > > > > > # startup options for the server > > > OPTIONS="-4 -u bind" > > > > Thank you, I was going to look in that direction in a while > > Disabling IPv6 in one app on one machine seems like a terrible idea > when the problem is that you have broken IPv6 on every machine in your > network. > > If you can't fix the router why would you not just disable SLAAC or > IPv6 on each machine? > > A lot of work seems to be being made here out of a simple problem. > Can I ask what the advantages are to using IPv6 inside a four-computer network? I thought I had said that there is probably nothing wrong with the router, I just don't have an IPv6 connection to the Internet, because my ISP does not currently provide it. When that changes, the inability of BIND9 to see the Debian server will disappear. Until then, I will grudgingly use my ISP's DNS servers. -- Joe
