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From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Linux advocacy
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 09:36:15 +0100
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On 2025-05-20, Marc Haber wrote:

> vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
>>On Sun, 18 May 2025 10:02:22 +0200, Marc Haber
>><mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote in <100c46e$3c1el$1@news1.tnib.de>:
>>>>   As for IPV6 ... my ISP doesn't use it. NO use at all - so I disable
>>>>   it to prevent problems.
>>> 
>>> That's a really stupid idea.
>>
>>I suggest he enable it from time to time to see if the ISP
>>has got it working.
>
> I suggest not disabling it in in the first place. It doesn't hurt when
> it's unused and unconfigured.

Maybe what's missing here for some of the affected people is configuring
address lookup to prefer IPv4 if they're using nameservers that return
AAAA records?

(Just a wild guess, but fitting enough that it's probably a good idea to
drop this here:)

    news://news.gmane.io/m3msju6x5x.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org

Although I'm not sure, from the gai.conf online manual page, that just
the mentioned line is sufficient, given it's said to disable the
"default table". I didn't test this myself.

-- 
Nuno Silva