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Re: Limiting rpc.lockd to IPv4 only



Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> writes:

> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 06:50:14AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
>>> It seems that rpc.lockd insists on using IPv6 if it is available in
>>> the kernel, whether or not IPv6 is enabled in /etc/netconfig
>>
>> Isn't it enough to disable v6only?
>
> Disable in which way?
>
> Remove INET6 from kernel?  yes, that works.
>
> Remove tcp6 and udp6 from netconfig?  No, that doesn't work.  (It also
> is not sufficient for nfsd ...)

Why are you trying to disable IPv6?   Lots of things listen on 127.0.0.1
and ::1 both, and I don't see the harm.

(I'm not saying you shouldn't, and that there shouldn't be flags to
disable v6 for various problems, but it seems like you are solving a
non-problem.)

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