Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:42:48 -0400 From: "Curt Micol" <asenchi@gmail.com> To: "Redd Vinylene" <reddvinylene@gmail.com> Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to stop my services from trying to bind to IPv6? Message-ID: <8d9c091a0808110642s127b690x33d3cde570dbd813@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f1019d520808110638h473747bdt44dfca4e53ff8d73@mail.gmail.com> References: <f1019d520808110622j1a654670h5d17d1fa9e167a9f@mail.gmail.com> <18592.16475.776041.273847@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <f1019d520808110638h473747bdt44dfca4e53ff8d73@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Redd Vinylene <reddvinylene@gmail.com> wrote: > I use the default sshd config file, I'd rather not maintain one. > > As for my named.conf, I haven't enabled no IPv6 setting there either. > > Perhaps an ipv6_enable="NO" in rc.conf will do the trick? > > Honestly though, shouldn't FreeBSD assume I don't use IPv6 unless I > tell it that I do? Nope, quite the opposite. IPv6 is in a lot of services, and keeping it on is a good idea (at least imho). In rc.conf you can set many *_flags to listen on IPv4. For example: sshd_flags="-4" You could also simply block all traffic on IPv6 (in pf): block all inet6 HTH, -- # Curt Micol
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