Re: How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 error in name resolution for AAAA type queries

Thank you for response. But it did not help. I commented out all the ip6 lines in /etc/hosts and then even rebooted the box.

Now see a sample output for aptitude update:-

# aptitude update
0% [Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org (1.0.0.0)] [Connecting to security.debian.or

I observed it with wireshark and the DNS queries and responses are like this:-

DNS Standard query AAAA ftp.us.debian.org DNS Standard query response [Malformed packet] DNS Standrd query A ftp.us.debian.org
DNS Standard query response A 1.0.0.0

ipv6 doesn't seem to have been disabled because the DNS AAAA type queries are still going out. Please help me to disable ipv6 completely.

On Dec 15, 2007 5:12 PM, Thilo Six <T.Six@gmx.de> wrote:
> Amogh Hooshdar wrote the following on 15.12.2007 07:58
>
> </snip>
>
> > I changed the "alias net-pf-10 ipv6" line to the following two lines.
> >
> > alias net-pf-10 off
> > alias ipv6 off
> >
> > After rebooting, I checked: lsmod | grep ipv6. Sure enough it is gone
> > and the command gives nil output. But when I use bitchx or pidgin to
> > connect to irc.freenode.net, I can still see DNS AAAA irc.freenode.net
> > type of queries.As a result our DNS server that doesn't understand
> > ipv6 returns 1.0.0.0 as the address and the clients don't work.
>
> </snip>
>
> > Please help me to disable ipv6 completely.
>
> <--------------- /etc/hosts ---------------
>
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> #::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> #fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> #ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> #ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> #ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> #ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
> --------------------------------------------->
>
> for nameresolution /etc/hosts is read then /etc/resolv.conf .
>
> HTH
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