[avahi] How to stop ipv6 address from being registered

Mark Edwards mark at antsclimbtree.com
Wed Oct 28 17:51:31 PDT 2009


I am running avahi-daemon 0.6.22 on Ubuntu 8.04, and it publishes an  
ipv6 address even though I'm trying to tell it not to:

Oct 28 17:45:09 labserver avahi-daemon[9603]: avahi-daemon 0.6.22  
starting up.
Oct 28 17:45:09 labserver avahi-daemon[9603]: Successfully called  
chroot().
Oct 28 17:45:09 labserver avahi-daemon[9603]: Successfully dropped  
remaining capabilities.
Oct 28 17:45:09 labserver avahi-daemon[9603]: No service file found  
in /etc/avahi/services.
Oct 28 17:45:09 labserver avahi-daemon[9603]: Joining mDNS multicast  
group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.101.
Oct 28 17:45:09 labserver avahi-daemon[9603]: New relevant interface  
eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Oct 28 17:45:09 labserver avahi-daemon[9603]: Network interface  
enumeration completed.
Oct 28 17:45:09 labserver avahi-daemon[9603]: Registering new address  
record for fe80::211:d8ff:fe33:766e on eth0.*.
Oct 28 17:45:09 labserver avahi-daemon[9603]: Registering new address  
record for 192.168.1.101 on eth0.IPv4.
Oct 28 17:45:09 labserver avahi-daemon[9603]: Registering HINFO record  
with values 'I686'/'LINUX'.
Oct 28 17:45:10 labserver avahi-daemon[9603]: Server startup complete.  
Host name is labserver.local. Local service cookie is 3357143783.


This is despite the fact that I have these settings in /etc/avahi/ 
avahi-daemon.conf:

use-ipv4=true
use-ipv6=false
publish-a-on-ipv6=no


Having an ipv6 address published is causing timeouts from Macs.  Is  
there a way I can get avahi to stop publishing the ipv6 address?

Thanks!


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