Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 04:13:29 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disabling INET6 Message-ID: <20020530041329.C35227@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020530061203.GA70500@northernbrewer.com>; from chris@northernbrewer.com on Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:12:06AM -0500 References: <20020530061203.GA70500@northernbrewer.com>
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--ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:12:06AM -0500, Christopher Farley wrote: > If I disable 'options INET6' in my kernel, will that be a problem for=20 > IPv6 aware applications like BIND9 and Mozilla? Will they need to be > recompiled? No. > (I'm having a little IPv6 problem with Mozilla on various FreeBSD > machines... try going to www.vanguard.com and see how long it takes to > resolve the address. I've checked my BIND logs and it seems to be=20 > an IPv6/DNS/Mozilla issue. I don't have any problems with this with > Mozilla on my Debian Linux system, but I do have this issue on three > different BSD machines.) Delays/timeouts should only be caused by IPv6 if you actually have an IPv6 network configured, i.e. if there's a way for the kernel to try and route packets to the address. Just by enabling the INET6 kernel option shouldn't cause any extra delays if you don't actually set it up. Kris --ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE89glYWry0BWjoQKURAg/BAJ4rTSfQg8a7HByx+TJn04rpzlQxMgCggdVF XWKxgxLVN1fd8B3j1RgGywE= =X2lF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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