Carlos E. R. wrote:
I'm not aware of a method to tell the DNS server not to provide IPv6 answers, which is what would be needed when the ISP does not provide IPv6.
No, that is not correct. The DNS server only supplies an IPv6 address when asked (AAAA lookup). 'host' does two lookups, one for A, one for AAAA. Then it is up to the local system to figure out what to do with the answers. When gai.conf is left as default, IPv6 is preferred over IPv4, with fallback to IPv4. Works fine on every one of my openSUSE boxes. Björn, on your machine where you have the unwanted IPv6 connection attempts, what does your network look like? Please post output: ip addr show ip route show ip -6 route show ping www.heise.de ping6 www.heise.de -- Per Jessen, Zürich (12.1°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org