On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 12:27 +0000, Dick Holland wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 07:10 -0500, Tom H wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Dick Holland <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > Sending "dig -t aaaa google.com" to my local DNS server: > > > > > > So the "no response" I guess means IPv6 is not supported by the server. > > > > > > Sending "dig -t aaaa google.com" to my ISP's DNS servers: > > > > > > No answer from the ISP either! So I guess that means they don't support > > > IPv6 either. > > > > I don't think that google.com has an ipv6 address. I think that you > > have to query ipv6.google.com. > > > > The test is not for google, it's to see if the ISP's DNS servers would > respond to a request for an IPv6 AAAA record. > > > > > > All this leaves me with one question: is there a way of turning off > > > these IPv6 DNS requests in Fedora? > > > > Disable ipv6. > > I have disabled IPv6 by adding an "install ipv6 /bin/true" line > into /etc/modprobe.d/dist.conf and by disabling the ip6tables Service. > This does allow Firefox to find web sites (whihc it would not do > before), but does not allow telnet or ftp to work. The results are > excatly as before. So that seems to indicate that even after disabling > IPv6, IPv6 DNS requests are still being issued. > Tom, I'll try the test you suggested and post the result. -- Dick Holland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
