[Dnsmasq-discuss] Completely disable IPv6
Hi, dumb question coming up. I spent the last 30mins looking over the mailing list and the man page trying to work this one out and I think I've come a conclusion but I'd be grateful if someone could confirm or correct me. I have a really dumb situation with 2 apps in use on my LAN that are meant to work together but don't. These are paid-for software, and their support teams each blame each other for the error with the result that I'm stuck in stalemate without a solution. One other user of the software suggested I disable IPv6. I thought I should configure dnsmasq to give out an instruction in the DHCP leases to tell the workstations not to use IPv6. Is that possible? It doesn't look like it. Thanks Adam
Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Completely disable IPv6
On 10/7/2010 7:18 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: I thought I should configure dnsmasq to give out an instruction in the DHCP leases to tell the workstations not to use IPv6. Is that possible? It doesn't look like it. Nope, DHCP (as such) only configures IPv4 interfaces (and *some* global options); I've never seen or heard of any mechanisms for dealing with IPv6 at all (other than DHCPv6, which is a TOTALLY different beast). You're pretty well stuck disabling IPv6 on each and every relevant host. (Personally and professionally I feel that's an awful hack that should never be necessary in this era -- where IPv6 deployment needs to be happening NOW -- but I understand that there's some seriously broken software out there.) Jima IPv6 junkie
