Re: could WWWOFFLE not make AAAA DNS requests if it doesn't bind to any IPv6 addresses?

Michael <[email protected]> Fri, 8 Jun 2007 01:20:28 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.network.wwwoffle.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Jan,

>        If hints.ai_flags includes the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag, then IPv4
>        addresses are returned in the list pointed to by result only 

To me this sounds as if the _queries_ will be done anyway.

What happens if you disable IPv6 kernel support ? In standard kernels it's a module called ipv6. There doesn't seem to be a boot parameter but you can try to blacklist it in /etc/modprobe.d.