Changing the preference from IPv6 to IPv4 doesn't disable anything. When it does a DNS lookup an there is both a IPv6 and IPv4 address available it picks the IPv4 address instead of the IPv6 address. If there is no IPv4 address it will use an IPv6 address.
Default behavior is the opposite. E Frank Ball [email protected] On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 01:13:52PM -0700, Franck Martin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:42 PM, E Frank Ball III <[1][email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 04:39:47PM -0400, Dan Geist wrote: > > **> If you use the "server" directive, the first response > **> back from the resolver library will be used.** Most > **> dual-stack-enabled OSs will prefer the IPv6 one among that > **> group if the host has a valid IPv6 configuration.** If you > **> don't reach it, you're out of luck.** The application has no > **> intrinsic knowledge of the "state" of the resolver's > **> configuration. > > If you want your linux machine to prefer IPv4 over IPv6 then put: > > precedence ::ffff:0:0/96** 100 > > in /etc/gai.conf > > So your recommendation is basically, like, disable IPv6? I think this was > the excuse we had like 5 years ago... > I'm going to test the pool setting, this sounds better, Thanks Dan for > suggesting it. > ** _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
