BIND trying to use IPv6 for recursion

[Eric Kom]

Good day,

configure /etc/default/bind9  file like:

OPTIONS="-4 -u bind"

-4 for IPv4. Bind was confusing between IPv4 and IPv6.



On 13/01/2012 19:20, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> I am a relative newbie to running BIND in "production".  I have recently
> set up BIND 9.7 (on CentOS 6.2) as the nameserver for my home network.
> I am using Google's public DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as my
> forwarders).
>
> 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.  My log is filling with messages like:
>
> error (network unreachable) resolving 'www.isc.org/A/IN':
> 2001:4f8:0:2::19#53
>
> 2001:4f8:0:2::19 is sfba.sns-pb.isc.org, which is one of the nameservers
> for the isc.org zone.
>
> I've tried Googling and looked through the ARM, but I haven't found any
> way to change this behavior.
>
> Hints appreciated.  Thanks!
>


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