Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:55:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Camilo Reyes <camiloreyes82@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: jon@radel.com Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Was: Re: Message-ID: <683720.84493.qm@web63912.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20080611144010.B114710656E7@hub.freebsd.org>
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Nothing impersonal; just trying to help. I'm a big advocate of getting rid of things you don't need to keep things simple. Sorry that wasn't the answer you were looking for... Camilo "Bono Vince Malum" > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:13:47 -0400 > From: Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> > Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Was: Re: > freebsd-questions > Digest, Vol 219, Issue 6 > To: camiloreyes82@yahoo.com > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <484FDD9B.5050706@radel.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Camilo Reyes wrote: > > The easiest way to deal with this is to disable IPv6 > on your kernel. > > There is a good guide here: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html. > > > > Simply comment out the 'options INET6' line > from your config file. Also, > > you could give more information on what application is > generating those > > logs. For example, what services are you running? Is > this setup as a > > server? And things of that sort. > > Disabling things so the log messages stop and you can > pretend all the > brokenness has magically gone away is indeed the easiest > solution > sometimes. It's rarely a good one, particularly for > the long term. > Anyway, the OP actually uses IPv6 on his network, so this > is pretty much > akin to suggesting that he turn off his computer to keep > people from > bothering it. > > The log messages are from his DNS server; he uses it for > resolving and > some local stuff; the log entries are the result of queries > from random > machines being rejected; random machines are doing that > since at least > one of his parent nameservers is handing out the IPv6 > address of his > server against his wishes; eventually he'll realize > this is actually the > case; and maybe he'll be able to convince whomever runs > the parent > nameserver(s) to update the records for his zone. (Just to > cover the > rest of your questions. :-) > > --Jon Radel > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: smime.p7s > Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature > Size: 3283 bytes > Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature > Url : > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20080611/86e3c1cf/smime-0001.bin
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