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I want to disable ipv6 support completely on debian squeeze 6.0.5. In many other posts I have seen setting the parameter net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 in /etc/sysctl.conf should disable it.

I've set that parameter and rebooted, but netstat -natp shows me that the ntp deamon is still using ipv6:

udp6       0      0 :::123                  :::*      0    7983        3138/ntpd

Is there anything else I need to configure?

markus
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  • ntpd is probably being loaded before procps applies the sysctl (if it does at all). Though as a general rule you shouldn't be disabling IPv6. – Michael Hampton Sep 26 '12 at 14:18

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I had this problem trying to get jabber to bind to the ipv4 address. Found the the sysctl.conf didn't work but did have luck adding the kernel command line option ipv6.disable=1

Ed King
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