Am 09.07.2013 10:58, schrieb J.Witvliet@xxxxxxxxx: > Hi all, > > Once in a while I see people suggesting the disabling of IPv6 to cope with some issue. > > My I _kindly_ ask not to do that anymore? > Even though such trick might take away the symptoms for you and me, it is a technical overkill and only tackles the symptoms. > > Lately I read a message on another M.L. from someone who only gets an IPv6 address from his provider, and gets his connection to legacy sites by means on 4in6 tunneling. > > On behalf of those people, "disabling v6" simply means: switch of your entire network. > If an application / service cannot cope with v6, the solution should be with that application, not by mutilating the network stack ;-) may i _kindly_ ask to give a relieable way like ipv6.disable=1 which works in F17/F18 and not in F19 beause i know what i am doing and there is currently no need for ipv6 the "inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>" means i need as example to run ip6tables to block access on servers to localhost:139/445 because internally the machine is serviced via SMB instead FTP but a PHP-script must never open a socket to the samba daemon
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