Re: ipv6 AAAA record lookup is making programs hang at startup.
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:04:22PM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> `ssh' and `xemacs' (a recent beta, hand built) are both (amoung other
> peices of software) hanging at startup. I ran ethereal, and
> discovered that there's a DNS query happening for the machine's own
> hostname; it's looking in DNS for it's own ipv6 AAAA record.
>
> Is there any way I can tell the system *not* to do that?
>
> What can I do to cure this?
do you have the IPV6 entries in your /etc/hosts i have those on all my machines
and none of them suffer from this.. i don't get IPV6 lookups either..
Reply to: