Disabling queries over IPv6

[Mark Andrews]

> I'm running BIND 9.2.3 and I'm looking for a way to turn off sourcing 
> queries with IPv6. The system on which it is running (Sun, Solaris 9)
> was recently configured with IPv6. And as soon as the system got a 
> routable IPv6 address, BIND began to source queries to other nameservers
> using IPv6 (ie. to those nameservers with an IPv6 address).
> 
> Is there a way to turn this off? While I eventually want this feature,
> I don't want to use it right now while we are still experimenting with 
> the IPv6 infrastructure. I notice there is a 'query-source-v6' option. 
> But that seems to only allow you to say which v6 address/port to use. 
> And not to tell the nameserver not to source queries with IPv6 at all.
> 
> There are no other IPv6 related statements configured. In particular the
> server isn't listening on an IPv6 address (there is no "listen-on-v6"
> statement).
> 
> I suppose one option would be to recompile without IPv6 support. But
> I'm hoping there's a quick config option, that I can turn back on when
> I'm ready ..
> 
> Thanks for any assistance,
> -S.M.

	"named -6"  BIND 9.3.x
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