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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DNSmasq: to IPv6 or not to IPv6?
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:55:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2656345.mvXUDI8C0e@wstn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0544c5bf-335b-c7e1-f2d7-4fc4ca0776ba@mail.meme.technology>

On Thursday, 18 August 2022 03:58:43 BST cal wrote:
> On 8/17/22 05:53, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 17 August 2022 13:33:30 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >> Hello list,
> >> 
> >> My LAN server runs net-dns/dnsmasq, which was updated today. When I
> >> restarted it I got a log entry that said it had been compiled with IPv6 -
> >> but the only reference to that under /etc/portage is USE=-dnsmasq in
> >> make.conf.
> > 
> > Oops! That should have been USE=-ipv6, of course.
> 
> It seems upstream removed the ability to disable IPv6 at compile time
> several years back:
> https://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?
p=dnsmasq.git;a=commit;h=ee8750451b49d27b1
> 80517a4e35b636be0fae575. Ironic that the author included "I'm sure no-one
> wants or needs
> IPv6-free code these days" in the commit message.

Interesting. I see that was nearly four years ago, and I've only just noticed.

> I suppose you could file a bug to remove the `ipv6` USE from the dnsmasq
> ebuild since it no longer does anything.

Perhaps. Thanks for finding this, Cal.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.





      reply	other threads:[~2022-08-18  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-17 12:33 [gentoo-user] DNSmasq: to IPv6 or not to IPv6? Peter Humphrey
2022-08-17 12:53 ` Peter Humphrey
2022-08-18  2:58   ` cal
2022-08-18  8:55     ` Peter Humphrey [this message]

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