Re: DNS funny with Debian

Andy Smith <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:41:28 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 03:28:51PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> I don't make any use of IPv6 in my network, so can I just disable it at
> the operating system level? At least until Plusnet roll it out to its
> customers.

You can disable SLAAC in whatever sets up your networking. Or you can
disable IPv6 entirely by booting with "ipv6.disable=1" on the kernel
command line.

Either way will result in you not getting a global scope IPv6 address
which will stop applications on your server trying to use IPv6.