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Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy



On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 16:22 +0300, George-Cristian Bîrzan wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 16:09 +0300, George-Cristian Bîrzan wrote:
> > ively, I guess you could add to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf a
> > line that says:
> > 
> > blacklist ipv6
> > 
> > then reboot. That should prevent the module from being loaded in the
> > first place. If you compiled your own kernel and built in support for
> > IPv6
> 
> Actually, it seems IPv6 support has been builtin in Debian kernels since
> June last year. Shows how much I use it. :-)
> 
> Apparently, the proper way to disable IPv6 is to append ipv6.disable=1
> to your kernel line in grub. If you're using grub legacy, go
> to /boot/grub/menu.lst and add "ipv6.disable=1" to the line saying:
> 
> # defoptions=
> 
> (Leave it commented, and if it already has something, just add a space
> at the end, then the ipv6.disable=1 bit).
> 
> If you're using grub2, go to /etc/default/grub and add it to the
> 
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="root=/dev/somethin" line, add a space then
> ipv6.disable=1.

Sigh. Not my best day today. After you do these, run update-grub to
actually update the config file, then reboot.

-- 
George-Cristian Bîrzan


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