Turning off ipv6

[Michael Cronenworth]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I know ipv6 is going to be in all our futures, but for the moment it's
> just a PITA. My ISP doesn't support it and my /var/log/messages is
> overflowing with complaints from named (I run the basic caching
> nameserver configuration).

Are you seeing messages like this?

named[27331]: network unreachable resolving 'fedoraproject.org/DS/IN': 
2001:500:f::1#53
named[27331]: network unreachable resolving 
'fedoraproject.org.dlv.isc.org/DLV/IN': 2001:502:2eda::23#53

Change your named.conf to have the following to suppress those messages:

logging {
         channel default_debug {
                 file "data/named.run";
                 severity dynamic;
         };
         channel default_syslog {
                 syslog local2;
                 severity warning;
         };
};

I would agree that the default named logging output is far too verbose.