SOLVED: BIND trying to use IPv6 for recursion

Ian Pilcher arequipeno at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 21:02:03 UTC 2012


On 01/13/2012 11:20 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> My ISP does not support IPv6, and none of the network interfaces on the
> server has an IPv6 address (including the loopback interface).  Despite
> this, BIND appears to be trying to use IPv6 to communicate with other
> nameservers.

I finally stumbled on search terms that led me to the answer, which is
to start named with the "-4" option.

Silly me for thinking this would be in the configuration file.  :-(

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Ian Pilcher                                         arequipeno at gmail.com
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