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disabling ipv6 and AAAA lookups on OpenBSD 4.6

Alexander Bochmann Wednesday 09 of December, 2009
Up to OpenBSD 4.5, running a system with no ipv6 connectivity was somewhat of a nuisance - the resolver would look for AAAA records first, returning (unreachable) ipv6 addresses...

In OpenBSD 4.6, there's a new resolv.conf (cache) option, which allows to disable this behaviour or set a preference (and inet4 is preferred by default):

#/etc/resolv.conf
family inet4

IPv6 addressing can be disabled by setting "-inet6" on interfaces.

See "Re: How to disable IPv6?" by Todd T. Fries openbsd-misc (cache).