Discovered during a recent project. Bind / Named was constantly spamming the logs about it being unable to reach root servers. The logs revealed that we were talking IPv6 addresses. Which was assumed to be disabled.
The less cool part was that in “/etc/named.conf” the following was commented out.
// listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
It turns out that to disable the IPv6 lookups you have to edit “/etc/sysconfig/named” and set
OPTIONS="-4"
The option does the following
Use IPv4 only even if the host machine is capable of IPv6. -4 and -6 are mutually exclusive.
You then run
service named restart
This serves the very practical purpose of not spamming the logs. My ISP has yet to enable IPv6 so it does me no good.
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