Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

[gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On 7/9/22 21:00, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 06:51:22PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 15:59:48 -0400
> > gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Andy, you obviously don't live in ipv4 only territory. Until n-m or
> > > whatever gets trained to auto switch to ipv4 if 6 fails, then we have
> > > no choice but to disable it if we want network connectivity of any
> > > kind outside of our own home nets, in an address block that does not
> > > get thru a router.
> > Gene, I also live at the end of an IPv4 only connection. By and large I
> > simply ignore IPv6. You may have an oddball setup, but it is up to you
> > to housebreak your applications to use IPv4 first. I do it in part by
> > using my own resolver, BIND9, and having it return only IPv4 addresses.
> And every single piece of this discussion is irrelevant to the OP's
> issue, which is that their MTA is apparently not listening on 127.0.0.1;25.
>
> IPv6 is a red herring.
>
> .
I agree with that too Greg, and its had it's 3 days in the fridge,
and is beginning to smell.

Take care & stay well.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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