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Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.



Am Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 09:48:11AM -0600 schrieb David Wright:

Hello David,

> On Mon 13 Feb 2023 at 11:39:31 (+0100), Christoph Brinkhaus wrote:
> > Am Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 09:29:16PM -0600 schrieb David Wright:
> > > On Fri 10 Feb 2023 at 06:40:42 (+0100), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 03:32:46PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> > > > > On 2/9/23 07:53, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 07:32:18AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > [...]
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > (I have no idea what mdns4_minimal is, but Debian put it there, and it
> > > > > > > hasn't caused a problem yet so I left it alone.)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > This is a zeroconf thingy. My box hasn't that, because I banned Avahi
> > > > > > and its ilk long ago.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Just out of curiosity: does your box have one of those funny link-local
> > > > > > IPv4 169.254.xxx.yyy addresses?
> > 
> > [deleted almost everything]
> 
> Wisely done: we don't need it twice … and logs can be lengthy.
> 
> > I have seen the 169.254.xxx.yyy on my system, too.
> > It is a Debian Bullseye. To check if Debian works on this hardware I
> > have simply select the xfce4 option in the installer. Either the avahi
> > stuff or xfce4 triggered the setup of the 169.254.xxx.yyy adress.
> > Disabling the start of the avahi-daemon did not change the situation.
> > Deinstall of avahi-daemon did not help, too.
> > 
> > Today I have deleted almost everything of avahi and xfce4. After a
> > reboot the 169.254.xxx.yyy is no more configured.
> 
> Yes, and that's a problem for anyone trying to replicate the
> configuration of these addresses: we usually never see files
> and logs from offending systems, but just reports of package
> deletion or, even less helpful, so-called nuking of random files.

Ok, this is true. Fortunately I have a git repository of /etc.
The diff is as below:

X11/Xsession.d/55xfce4-session (gone)
alternatives/lightdm-greeter (gone)
alternatives/x-session-manager (gone)
alternatives/x-session-manager.1.gz (gone)
alternatives/x-terminal-emulator
alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz
avahi/avahi-autoipd.action (gone)
avahi/avahi-daemon.conf (gone)
avahi/hosts (gone)
dbus-1/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf (gone)
default/avahi-daemon (gone)
dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/avahi-autoipd (gone)
.../dhclient-exit-hooks.d/zzz_avahi-autoipd (gone)
group
group-
gshadow
gshadow-
init.d/avahi-daemon (gone)
ipp-usb/ipp-usb.conf (gone)
ld.so.cache
mailcap
network/if-down.d/avahi-autoipd (gone)
network/if-up.d/avahi-autoipd (gone)
nsswitch.conf
passwd
passwd-
rc0.d/K01avahi-daemon (gone)
rc1.d/K01avahi-daemon (gone)
rc2.d/K01avahi-daemon (gone)
rc3.d/K01avahi-daemon (gone)
rc4.d/K01avahi-daemon (gone)
rc5.d/K01avahi-daemon (gone)
rc6.d/K01avahi-daemon (gone)
shadow
shadow-
xdg/autostart/xscreensaver.desktop (gone)
xdg/xfce4/Xft.xrdb (gone)
.../xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml (gone)
xdg/xfce4/xinitrc (gone)
xfce4/defaults.list (gone)
40 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 841 deletions(-)

May be this gives some information. If not I can reproduce the issue
and provide logs as required.

Now there is no 169.254.xxx.yyy in any file of /etc.

Kind regards,
Christoph
-- 
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schmeckt sie dem Hund.


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