From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 15:55:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5FB1065675 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:55:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from camiloreyes82@yahoo.com) Received: from web63912.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web63912.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.97.127]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6E138FC23 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:55:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from camiloreyes82@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 89237 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Jun 2008 15:55:49 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=zHOikbwNkfgNS+zNXZWWqr31pVNLl6TODRgBH68375+1q+OsecIJEoCIIfAD/e+P8wJP/vPqieTMRiRiWjpPqAYZVt9HQ56bgcwVMk1IHRuRbQM6nWTYKi/xNXWKRRJqUGPef7V+6xbKj/5sBHhnHu6YvAKGhtDoR/540RrXoX4=; Received: from [146.23.68.23] by web63912.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:55:49 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.199 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:55:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Camilo Reyes To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080611144010.B114710656E7@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <683720.84493.qm@web63912.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Cc: jon@radel.com Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Was: Re: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: camiloreyes82@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:55:51 -0000 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 > 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