Thanks Everyone for the help!! from what I gather it not easy to disable ipv6 but then why disable it anyways. I think what's happening is that the fetch (or ftp) is just trying ipv6 address first and not the ipv4. From one of the replies I got from Jona (see below), this should do the trick.
Thanks In gmane.os.openbsd.misc, you wrote: > How can I disable IPv6 in openbsd 4.x (3 - in my case) without > recompiling kernel? > I have a strange issue where when I try to install symon utility using > ports, it fails with message: > >>> Fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles// >>> jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz > . > Trying 2001:4f8:0:2::e... > ftp: connect to address 2001:4f8:0:2::e: No route to host > Trying 2001:6c8:6:4::7... > > I don't know why I am seeing Ipv6 address there. Maybe the DNS server > is returning this IPv6 address but my os or app (ports in this case) > has to be querying for an IPv6 AAAA record?? don't know. It should fall back to the v4 address if the connection to the v6 address fails. If you want to get rid of the message you can set: FETCH_CMD = /usr/bin/ftp -V -m -4 -k ${FTP_KEEPALIVE} in /etc/mk.conf. That's the default setting plus -4 which makes it stick to IPv4 addresses. See: bsd.port.mk(5) ftp(1) On Apr 24, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Parvinder Bhasin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How can I disable IPv6 in openbsd 4.x (3 - in my case) without >> recompiling >> kernel? > > Unless your network is misconfigured, in your use case there's no > problem. Your machine will detect it has no routes for IPv6 unicast > addresses, and will skip those and attempt IPv4 automatically. > > Is that not what you're seeing? > >> I don't know why I am seeing Ipv6 address there. > > Because ftp.freebsd.org has AAAA records, and ftp(1) supports IPv6.
