Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-12 Thread Andy Smith
uot;my father was > > killed by a 128-bit integer", and can't be taken seriously. > > From the peanut gallery: I disabled IPv6 quite some time ago. I don't recall > how I did it, but I might have that information in my notes, somewhere. Are you sure you've d

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-12 Thread gene heskett
On 7/12/22 10:21, Lee wrote: On 7/11/22, rhkramer wrote: From the peanut gallery: I disabled IPv6 quite some time ago. I don't recall how I did it, but I might have that information in my notes, somewhere. The reason that I disabled it (which might not be totally logical) is that in IPv4, I

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-12 Thread Lee
On 7/11/22, rhkramer wrote: > > From the peanut gallery: I disabled IPv6 quite some time ago. I don't > recall how I did it, but I might have that information in my notes, somewhere. > > The reason that I disabled it (which might not be totally logical) is that > in IPv4, I have always had my com

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-12 Thread Anssi Saari
rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > I could not find (in the searching I did) equivalent functionality for IPv6, > so > I disabled IPv6 in hopes of keeping my systems (fairly) secure. The equivalent to NAT in IPv6 is NAT, of course. It's not usually spoken of much but for example my VPN provider does

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-11 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, July 10, 2022 06:48:10 PM Andy Smith wrote: > Otherwise I'm afraid your claims about IPv6 so far have been quite > bizarre, on the level of "IPv6 ate my homework" or "my father was > killed by a 128-bit integer", and can't be taken seriously. From the peanut gallery: I disabled IP

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Charles, On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 06:51:22PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > it is up to you to housebreak your applications to use IPv4 first. If you find yourself having to do this, something is probably broken. Broken things do exist, but it is really quite rare. What you've written here make

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, Before we go any further let's just remember that this thread was started by someone wanting to disable IPv6 for no specific reason. They had decided they needed to do so to fix some problem they were having, when in fact they had ALREADY disabled IPv6, so there is no possib

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-10 Thread Roger Price
On Sat, 9 Jul 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: And every single piece of this discussion is irrelevant to the OP's issue, which is that their MTA is apparently not listening on 127.0.0.1;25. IPv6 is a red herring. Yes, this is my fault for choosing an inappropriate Subject line. I will try again

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread local10
Jul 10, 2022, 05:43 by charlescur...@charlescurley.com: > My /etc/default/named looks like: > > # > # run resolvconf? > RESOLVCONF=no > > # startup options for the server > OPTIONS="-4 -u bind" > > > That should do it. > > But all that does is tell named to use IPv4. It will still return IPv6 > ad

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Tim Woodall
IPv4. It will still return IPv6 addresses. So maybe I'm wrong about returning only IPv4 addresses. Hmmm I was a bit surprised. I've never had to disable ipv6 where the only public routes are ipv4. Do some people have a default route for ipv6 that doesn't work? The default se

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 06:44:46 +0200 (CEST) local10 wrote: > Jul 10, 2022, 00:51 by charlescur...@charlescurley.com: > > > I do it in part by > > using my own resolver, BIND9, and having it return only IPv4 > > addresses. > > How did you do it? I tried to start named with "-4" option to use > o

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread local10
Jul 10, 2022, 00:51 by charlescur...@charlescurley.com: > I do it in part by > using my own resolver, BIND9, and having it return only IPv4 addresses. > How did you do it? I tried to start named with "-4" option to use only ipv4 but it refused to start with that option, IIRC. Regards,

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread gene heskett
On 7/9/22 21:00, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 06:51:22PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 15:59:48 -0400 gene heskett wrote: Andy, you obviously don't live in ipv4 only territory. Until n-m or whatever gets trained to auto switch to ipv4 if 6 fails, then we have

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 06:51:22PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 15:59:48 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > > Andy, you obviously don't live in ipv4 only territory. Until n-m or > > whatever gets trained to auto switch to ipv4 if 6 fails, then we have > > no choice but to disab

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 15:59:48 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > Andy, you obviously don't live in ipv4 only territory. Until n-m or > whatever gets trained to auto switch to ipv4 if 6 fails, then we have > no choice but to disable it if we want network connectivity of any > kind outside of our own home

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread gene heskett
On 7/9/22 11:31, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 04:52:27PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: When I try to start fetchmail I get the error message Jul 09 10:22:57 titan fetchmail[7286]: reading message mail...@rogerprice.org@mail.gandi.net:1 of 7

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Christian Britz
Am 09.07.22 um 16:14 schrieb Andy Smith: > Sounds like you have a misconfiguration that should be fixed, rather > than disabling IPv6 to work around it. > I do not know about this case, but there are still situations where applications have problems with IPv6. For example the proprietary Citr

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Christian Britz
Am 09.07.22 um 15:52 schrieb Roger Price: > because directory /proc/sys/net/ipv6 doesn't exist. What is the new way of > disabling IPv6? I did it recently just in the way you described on Debian 11. -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 04:52:27PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > When I try to start fetchmail I get the error message > > Jul 09 10:22:57 titan fetchmail[7286]: > reading message > mail...@rogerprice.org@mail.gandi.net:1 of 7 (8954 octets) >

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 04:52:27PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > Jul 09 10:22:57 titan fetchmail[7286]: > Connection errors for this poll: > name 0: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: > Connection refused. > name 1:

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Roger Price
On Sat, 9 Jul 2022, Andy Smith wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 03:52:03PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: I would like to disable IPv6 adapters in order to persuade fetchmail to talk to exim4. Sounds like you have a misconfiguration that should be fixed, rather than disabling IPv6 to work around it

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 03:52:03PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > I would like to disable IPv6 adapters in order to persuade > fetchmail to talk to exim4. Sounds like you have a misconfiguration that should be fixed, rather than disabling IPv6 to work around it. >

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Greg
On 7/9/22 15:52, Roger Price wrote: In a Debian 11 system, I would like to disable IPv6 adapters in order to persuade fetchmail to talk to exim4.  The advice generally given is to add a line to /etc/sysctl.conf  net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 and run sysctl -p as root.  With Debian 11

Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Roger Price
In a Debian 11 system, I would like to disable IPv6 adapters in order to persuade fetchmail to talk to exim4. The advice generally given is to add a line to /etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 and run sysctl -p as root. With Debian 11 this generates the error message

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 08:16:22PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: ls -l .bashrc You've got a command name, and you're passing two string arguments to it. If you feel a need to quote every string argument, then you should be writing it like this: ls "-l" ".bashrc" There's nothing special about t

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Apr 2022 at 08:07:09 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-04-15 at 22:52, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 09:47:11PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2022-04-15 at 20:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>> You're also going to exit your script with the exit status from > >>>

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:07:09AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > ...Huh. That's so unintuitive that it hadn't even occurred to me to test > it before posting, but I just did test it (with 'ps', not 'foobar', > because there's a reason why 'ps' would be special for this purpose), > and you're correct

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 04:20:15PM +0800, wilson wrote: > does bash shell have the list/array concept? Bash has indexed arrays (since forever) and associative arrays (in version 4.0 and above). > ~$ list="1 2 3 4" > > ~$ for i in $list; do echo $i; done > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > > is this a list access

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-04-15 at 22:52, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 09:47:11PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2022-04-15 at 20:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> You're also going to exit your script with the exit status from >>> that last grep command. That's probably not what you want. If >

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 10:39:03AM +0530, didar wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:58:01PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > If you happen to know their IPv6 addresses and can trust that those > > assignments will remain stable then you may prefer instead to add > > prohibited routes for these,

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-16 Thread David
On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 at 18:20, wilson wrote: > does bash shell have the list/array concept? Hi, this mailing list is very kind, and as part of that kindness I want to offer you some kind advice. First, no mailing list will have the patience to teach you every feature of a programming language, o

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 16 Apr 2022, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 09:47:11PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 2022-04-15 at 20:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:20:40AM +0800, wilson wrote: ps -efw |grep $PS |grep -v grep You're also going to exit your script with the

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 09:47:11PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-04-15 at 20:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:20:40AM +0800, wilson wrote: > > >> ps -efw |grep $PS |grep -v grep > > > You're also going to exit your script with the exit status from that > > last gr

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:06:23AM +0800, wilson wrote: > > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > if [ "$1" == on ] > > this sounds strange. why a string doesn't need "" around in shell script? Shell works by text substitution. If you have foo $bar $baz the shell first replaces $bar and $baz by their

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread didar
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:58:01PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:34:25AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > I have an issue with a few websites that seem to hang with ipv6 > > If you happen to know their IPv6 addresses and can trust that those > assignments will

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 09:47:11PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-04-15 at 20:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:20:40AM +0800, wilson wrote: > > >> ps -efw |grep $PS |grep -v grep > > > You're also going to exit your script with the exit status from that > > last grep

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 4/15/2022 6:58 PM, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:34:25AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: I have an issue with a few websites that seem to hang with ipv6 If you happen to know their IPv6 addresses and can trust that those assignments will remain stable then you may prefe

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-04-15 at 20:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:20:40AM +0800, wilson wrote: >> ps -efw |grep $PS |grep -v grep > You're also going to exit your script with the exit status from that > last grep command. That's probably not what you want. If it's not, > then an explic

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:20:40AM +0800, wilson wrote: > Can you help check if my this script has any issue? > #!/bin/bash > > PORT=$1 > if [ -z $PORT ];then "$PORT" should be quoted here. > echo "$0 port" As a usage message, this is rather minimal. At least put "usage: " in front of it.

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 08:20:40 +0800 wilson wrote: > I didn't know much about shell rules. > Can you help check if my this script has any issue? You might look into the shellcheck package. There is an extension to use it in Emacs, and there may well be extensions for other editors. -- Does anybo

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread wilson
Greg Wooledge wrote: But nobody does that. It's simply unnecessary. Likewise, you don't need quotes around "on" or "off" because they don't contain special characters. You also don't need quotes around the "==" string argument that was passed in this command. It's funny that you would think

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:06:23AM +0800, wilson wrote: > > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > if [ "$1" == on ] > > this sounds strange. why a string doesn't need "" around in shell script? You only need quotes to force a literal interpretation of whitespace or other special characters, or to suppress

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread wilson
Ash Joubert wrote: To completely and persistently disable all ipv6 support in the kernel, I add "ipv6.disable=1" to the Linux command line variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub, run update-grub, and reboot. If you have other command line arguments, they are separated by whitespace

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Ash Joubert
On 15/04/2022 23:32, wilson wrote: What's the good way to disable IPv6 in a debian system? To completely and persistently disable all ipv6 support in the kernel, I add "ipv6.disable=1" to the Linux command line variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub, run update-grub,

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread wilson
Greg Wooledge wrote: if [ "$1" == on ] this sounds strange. why a string doesn't need "" around in shell script?

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:34:25AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > I have an issue with a few websites that seem to hang with ipv6 If you happen to know their IPv6 addresses and can trust that those assignments will remain stable then you may prefer instead to add prohibited routes for th

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 4/15/22 8:10 AM, wilson wrote: no. it's the Hadoop system, which has the possible issue with ipv6. thanks I would check the documentation for Hadoop - does it have an option to disable ipv6? I would just disable ipv6 for the app that has the issue with ipv6, not for the whole syst

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 4/15/22 12:08 PM, Tim Woodall wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 11:21:46AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: Another improvement to the script would be to have the script toggle the default route on or off, depending on the existence or not of the def

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 15 Apr 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 11:21:46AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: Another improvement to the script would be to have the script toggle the default route on or off, depending on the existence or not of the default route, for the case when there is no arg

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 11:21:46AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > Another improvement to the script would be to have the script toggle the > default route on or off, depending on the existence or not of the default > route, for the case when there is no argument to the script. That requires some

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 4/15/22 11:12 AM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 4/15/2022 10:50 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:34:25AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: user@debian:~$ cat ipv6 #!/bin/bash if [ $1 == "on" ] then ip -6 route add default via dev elif [ $1 == "off" ] then

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 4/15/2022 10:50 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:34:25AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: user@debian:~$ cat ipv6 #!/bin/bash if [ $1 == "on" ] then     ip -6 route add default via dev elif [ $1 == "off" ] then     ip -6 route delete default fi Quotes are in the

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:34:25AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > user@debian:~$ cat ipv6 > #!/bin/bash > if [ $1 == "on" ] > then >     ip -6 route add default via dev > elif [ $1 == "off" ] > then >     ip -6 route delete default > fi Quotes are in the wrong place. The [ builtin com

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 4/15/2022 8:10 AM, wilson wrote: no. it's the Hadoop system, which has the possible issue with ipv6. thanks I have an issue with a few websites that seem to hang with ipv6, so I don't want to disable ipv6 permanently but only temporarily when I want to access those sites. On

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Reco
Hi, please do not top-post. On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 08:35:33PM +0800, wilson wrote: > Reco wrote: > > The most non-intrusive way of doing it (side effects considered) is: > > > > /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1 > > /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6=0 > >

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 15/4/22 9:59 pm, Erwan David wrote: No. But it won't be kept if you reboot To make it permanent you need to create the file /etc/sysctl.d/10-disable_ipv6.conf with the 2 lines net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1 net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6=0 However make sure no other file in /etc/sy

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Erwan David
Le 15/04/2022 à 14:35, wilson a écrit : after doing this, do I need to restart the OS? thanks Reco wrote: The most non-intrusive way of doing it (side effects considered) is: /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6=0 No. But it w

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread wilson
after doing this, do I need to restart the OS? thanks Reco wrote: The most non-intrusive way of doing it (side effects considered) is: /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6=0

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 07:32:01PM +0800, wilson wrote: > What's the good way to disable IPv6 in a debian system? The most non-intrusive way of doing it (side effects considered) is: /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.lo.disabl

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread wilson
no. it's the Hadoop system, which has the possible issue with ipv6. thanks 황병희 wrote: If that is about mail system Postfix, you check this parameter:

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread 황병희
> What's the good way to disable IPv6 in a debian system? Well i don't know debian system. However i'm using Debian 11. If that is about mail system Postfix, you check this parameter: #+begin_src text inet_protocols = ipv4 #+end_src Sincerely, Linux fan Byung-Hee -- ^고맙습니다 _布德天下_ 감사합니다_^))//

disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread wilson
Hello What's the good way to disable IPv6 in a debian system? Thanks

Re: Disable ipv6?

2014-02-02 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > > Is there an easy way to do this? > > I don't use it, I don't understand it (yet), so I don't want to use it until > I do understand it. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/01/msg00109.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Disable ipv6?

2014-01-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
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Disable ipv6?

2014-01-28 Thread Tanstaafl
Is there an easy way to do this? I don't use it, I don't understand it (yet), so I don't want to use it until I do understand it. Thx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/01/14 04:55, Tom H wrote: >> >> When ipv6 is compiled as a module, you can disable it with modprobe or >> sysctl. >> >> When ipv6 is compiled in-kernel, you can disable it in two ways. >> >> You can disable the ipv6 stack by adding "ip

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-05 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:40:43 +1100 Scott Ferguson sent: > # netstat -tunlp |grep p6 |wc -l Just says: 0 Thank you, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *** Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-05 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:40:43 +1100 Scott Ferguson sent: > To see what uses IPv6 *and* is running:- > # netstat -tunlp |grep p6 |more After that command - nothing - blank back screen with (END) in the middle. It's all good. Thank you. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/01/14 04:55, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: # rmmod ipv6 libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1802 kmod_module_get_holders: could not open '/sys/module/ipv6/holders': No such file or directory Error: Module ipv6 is in u

Fw: Disable ipv6....... [OT?]

2014-01-03 Thread Charlie
omething tricky here? Maybe someone can enlighten me? TIA Charlie Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 08:13:16 +1100 From: Charlie To: johnandsa...@cox.net Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Disable ipv6... On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:57:36 -0500 John mentioned this:

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-02 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 17:55:50 + Tom H sent: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Bonno Bloksma > wrote: > >>> > >>> # rmmod ipv6 > >>> > >>> libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1802 > >>> kmod_module_get_holders: could not open > >>> '/sys/module/ipv6/holders': No such file or directory Err

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-02 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >>> >>> # rmmod ipv6 >>> >>> libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1802 >>> kmod_module_get_holders: could not open '/sys/module/ipv6/holders': No >>> such file or directory Error: Module ipv6 is in use >> >> So I am certain now that I don'

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-02 Thread Federico Alberto Sayd
On 02/01/14 04:08, Charlie wrote: Apologies, let me say this before I resend it: Running Jessie: 3.11-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux Toshiba c500/A00L w8 laptop Another thing I would like to do is to disable ipv6 on this system as

RE: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-02 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hello Charlie, >> # rmmod ipv6 >> >> libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1802 >> kmod_module_get_holders: could not open '/sys/module/ipv6/holders': No >> such file or directory Error: Module ipv6 is in use > > Thank you Ivan and Pi for your help. > > I think the message above is spurious

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-02 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 18:08:49 +1100 Charlie sent: > # rmmod ipv6 > > libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1802 > kmod_module_get_holders: could not open '/sys/module/ipv6/holders': No > such file or directory Error: Module ipv6 is in use Thank you Ivan and Pi for your help. I think the mess

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-02 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:39:47 +0100 Ivan Jurišić sent: > If wont to check loaded modules in memory try: > > lsmod nf_conntrack 70753 7 nf_nat,xt_state,nf_nat_ipv4,xt_conntrack,nf_conntrack_ ftp,iptable_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4 > or lsmod | grep ipv6 returns nothing? > then if not fin

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-02 Thread Ivan Jurišić
If wont to check loaded modules in memory try: lsmod or lsmod | grep ipv6 then if not find in output "ipv6" that module is not active. also check with /sbin/ifconfig | grep inet if got any line with "inet6" in that case You have up & running ipv6. Dana 02/01/2014 08:22, Charlie je napisa

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-02 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 18:22:09 +1100 Charlie sent: > On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 07:58:24 +0100 Ivan Jurišić sent: > > > Try this: > > > > 1. open file /etc/default/grub > > > > nano /etc/default/grub > > > > 2 add "ipv6.disable=1" in variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, > > example: > > > > GRUB_CM

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-01 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 07:58:24 +0100 Ivan Jurišić sent: > Try this: > > 1. open file /etc/default/grub > > nano /etc/default/grub > > 2 add "ipv6.disable=1" in variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, > example: > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet ipv6.disable=1" > > 3. last step, update gru

Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-01 Thread Charlie
Apologies, let me say this before I resend it: Running Jessie: 3.11-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux Toshiba c500/A00L w8 laptop Another thing I would like to do is to disable ipv6 on this system as satellite doesn't use ipv6 Without

Re: Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-01 Thread Ivan Jurišić
14 07:47, Charlie je napisao(la): > Another thing I would like to do is to disable ipv6 on this system > as satellite doesn't use ipv6 > > Without doing ifdown eth0 to see if I was using ipv6, I did: > > # rmmod ipv6 > > libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:180

Disable ipv6.......

2014-01-01 Thread Charlie
Another thing I would like to do is to disable ipv6 on this system as satellite doesn't use ipv6 Without doing ifdown eth0 to see if I was using ipv6, I did: # rmmod ipv6 libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1802 kmod_module_get_holders: could not open '/sys/module/ip

Re: Disable IPv6

2010-10-09 Thread Adam Hardy
James Brown on 08/10/10 08:11, wrote: Just a quick question - can I disable IPv6 for my whole machine? " You can disable IPv6 system-wide by editing your module configuration file. This is usually one of /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/aliases, depending on your distro. Remov

Re: Disable IPv6

2010-10-08 Thread James Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Hardy wrote: > James Brown on 07/10/10 15:52, wrote: >> Adam Hardy wrote: >>> Just a quick question - can I disable IPv6 for my whole machine? >>> >>> I mean apart from changing some kernel compilation fla

Re: Disable IPv6

2010-10-07 Thread Adam Hardy
James Brown on 07/10/10 15:52, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: Just a quick question - can I disable IPv6 for my whole machine? I mean apart from changing some kernel compilation flags. I have two software apps which are meant to be interacting with each other and with servers on the net, but they

Re: Disable IPv6

2010-10-07 Thread James Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Hardy wrote: > Just a quick question - can I disable IPv6 for my whole machine? > > I mean apart from changing some kernel compilation flags. > > I have two software apps which are meant to be interacting with each > other a

Re: Disable IPv6

2010-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:46:23 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Just a quick question - can I disable IPv6 for my whole machine? Yes, you can :-) > I mean apart from changing some kernel compilation flags. (...) This may help: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6 Greetings, -- Camaleón

Re: Disable IPv6

2010-10-07 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:46:23 +0100 Adam Hardy wrote: > Just a quick question - can I disable IPv6 for my whole machine? http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Disabling_IPv6_under_a_2.6_kernel http://www.karkomaonline.com/index.php/2009/04/how-to-disable-ipv6-in-debian/ h

Re: Disable IPv6

2010-10-07 Thread godo
On 10/07/2010 02:46 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: Just a quick question - can I disable IPv6 for my whole machine? I mean apart from changing some kernel compilation flags. I have two software apps which are meant to be interacting with each other and with servers on the net, but they aren't and

Disable IPv6

2010-10-07 Thread Adam Hardy
Just a quick question - can I disable IPv6 for my whole machine? I mean apart from changing some kernel compilation flags. I have two software apps which are meant to be interacting with each other and with servers on the net, but they aren't and they aren't giving me much to go on,

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

2007-12-16 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
d 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 type > > queries are still going out. Please help me to disable ipv6 > > completely. > > are yo usi

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

2007-12-16 Thread Alex Samad
7;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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amogh Hooshdar wrote the following on 15.12.2007 07:58 > &g

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

2007-12-15 Thread Mike Bird
t; DNS Standard query response A 1.0.0.0 > > ipv6 doesn't seem to have been disabled because the DNS type > queries are still going out. Please help me to disable ipv6 > completely. We recently ran into a similar problem. IPv6 has long been successfully black-listed but for

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

2007-12-15 Thread Thilo Six
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. are yo using KDE? < grep IP /etc/environment KDE_NO_IPV6=1 -

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

2007-12-15 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
s are still going out. Please help me to disable ipv6 completely. On Dec 15, 2007 5:12 PM, Thilo Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amogh Hooshdar wrote the following on 15.12.2007 07:58 > > > > > I changed the "alias net-pf-10 ipv6" line to the following two lines

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

2007-12-15 Thread Thilo Six
ives nil output. But when I use bitchx or pidgin to > connect to irc.freenode.net, I can still see DNS 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. > Please help m

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

2007-12-14 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
odeprobe.d/blacklist - Result: still the problem persists. I have succeeded to make Iceweasel work by setting network.dns.disableIPv6=true in about:config. But I need a OS-wide solution so that all my network apps do not send ipv6 DNS type requests and they work successfully. Please help

Re: How to disable ipv6

2007-08-26 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 26 August 2007 15:34, Alber wrote: > Hi! > > Have the same problem on Debian Etch. > > What have been done: > in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases > alias net-pf-10 ipv6 changed to > alias net-pf-10 off > alias ipv6 off (problem exist) > > on next stage: > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist > blacklist ipv6

Re: How to disable ipv6

2007-08-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 03:34:50PM +0200, Alber wrote: > > Hi! > > Have the same problem on Debian Etch. > > What have been done: > in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases > alias net-pf-10 ipv6 changed to > alias net-pf-10 off > alias ipv6 off (problem exist) this should have done it > > on next stage: > /etc

Re: How to disable ipv6

2007-08-26 Thread Alber
Hi! Have the same problem on Debian Etch. What have been done: in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases alias net-pf-10 ipv6 changed to alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off (problem exist) on next stage: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist blacklist ipv6 (problem exist) on next stage: adding alias net-pf-10 off alias

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