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[Bug network/14799] RES_OPTIONS cannot disable options enabled in /etc/resolv.conf
- From: "fweimer at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 11:43:21 +0000
- Subject: [Bug network/14799] RES_OPTIONS cannot disable options enabled in /etc/resolv.conf
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- References: <bug-14799-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14799
Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Nils Toedtmann from comment #1)
> +1 for "no-inet6"
>
> Most linux distributions have RES_USE_INET6 set at compile time, and there
> seems to be no way to disable it at runtime.
>
> The sysadmin should be given an option to disable AAAA lookups.
RES_USE_INET6 and the “inet6” option are not related to this. Instead, they
change the type of addresses produced by gethostname. Many applications are
incompatible with this. See bug 19582.
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