On 2026-09-21, Joe <[email protected]> wrote: > > For completeness, I was also in the thread early with a need to disable > it. > > Short version: my ISP does not (yet) provide IPv6 connectivity, and my > router was supplied by the ISP so already had IPv6 disabled. I was > having trouble with DNS failures due to bind9 not finding an IPv6 > route out of the network and giving up, even though the requested host > also had an IPv4 address. > > I was advised that disabling IPv6 in the kernel was the final fix, > so I did that to the two Raspberry Pis which were having the problems, > mostly of finding RPi apt repositories. No good. I had to disable it > individually in both bind9 and apt to get reliable IPv4 lookups. I left > the thread at this point.
IPv6 seems to be the future, so I guess these problems will eventually fade away, although the OP has been struggling since 2015 (!), apparently, which is a testament to something.
