Problem after upgrading to BIND 9

[Mark Andrews]

> patrick wrote:
> > I upgraded BIND on one of our DNS servers (running FreeBSD 4.x) to
> > version 9, and now all of our other machines that use this server for
> > DNS resolution is experiencing a problem where "localhost" seems to be
> > resolving to "::1". For example, if I previously typed:
> >
> > telnet localhost 25
> >
> > I would get:
> >
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to localhost.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > ...
> >
> > But now, I get:
> >
> > Trying ::1...
> >
> > Which takes forever to timeout.
> >
> > In my /etc/hosts file, I have
> >
> > ::1                     localhost
> > 127.0.0.1               localhost
> >
> >
> > We don't use IPV6 at all, and I do have the localhost.rev and
> > localhost-v6.rev added into the new BIND 9 server. Does anyone have an
> > idea of how I can get this to work the way it used to?
>
> If you don't use IPV6 at all, why do you even bother with a 
> localhost-v6.rev? Try commenting out that definition and see if your 
> problem goes away.

	Removing localhost-v6.rev won't have any effect.

	What does "netstat -rnf inet6" return.
 
>             - Kevin
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