On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:13:39AM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 06/28 09:04, Mick wrote: > > On Thursday, 28 June 2018 17:55:12 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am "dicovering" (what a great word :) the IP address of my Raspberry > > > Pi now via ahavi/nss-mdns. > > > > > > When pinging my PC on my Raspberry Pi I get the IPv4-address (good!) - > > > when pinging my Raspberry I only get the IPv6-address(wierd-looking) . The > > > commands are identical. > > > > > > ifconfig on my Raspberry shows me, that the interface gets a ip4 and a > > > ipv6 address. > > > > > > What do I need where to tweak to get ipv4 address shown when pinging? > > > > > > Thanks a lot for any help in advance! > > > Cheers > > > Meino > > > > ping -4 -c 3 <IP address> > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick > > > Hi Mick, > > thanks for your help! :) > > But...sorry I asked not exactly enough (no native speaker). > > I dont want to change the ping options...I am searching for > a global setting, which seems to different on both machines, > since the output of an unaltered ping call on each of them > produces different output... > > What config should I modify? >
/etc/nsswitch.conf, the line that starts with 'host:'. Mine looks like this: hosts: files mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns you can specify mdns4_minimal/mdns4 instead of mdns_minimal/mdns to only get ipv4 results. With mdns either ipv4 or ipv6 will be returned, but apparently ipv6 is preferred.