Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nuno Silva Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux advocacy Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 09:36:15 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: <100hetv$24um2$2@dont-email.me> References: <100c46e$3c1el$1@news1.tnib.de> <100hcra$3nsq7$1@news1.tnib.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 10:36:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2c988e42dbb6e76c1766c0bdc01ac2bd"; logging-data="2259650"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18A7Ie6Ip1TtLBkuj35GMLJ" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vaUttwU7AFab3PuHDbXDie0E0Ds= Bytes: 2248 On 2025-05-20, Marc Haber wrote: > vallor wrote: >>On Sun, 18 May 2025 10:02:22 +0200, Marc Haber >> 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