Sometimes I miss the good old days …<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently, I had an issue with one of the servers, where a bunch of services were attaching to IPv6 ports instead of the IPv4 ones. Rather than editing the configuration of each of these services, I wanted to simply disabled IPv6 on the machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the old good days, things like these were easily done via the sysctl<\/em>. I surely tried that option too, but it wasn’t enough. Turns out, the proper way these days is to do this via Grub, as per this blog post<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n That sounds a bit too excessive. But then again a reboot is also required for the proper disabling of SELinux, so I guess its’ fine. <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n Sometimes I miss the good old days … Recently, I had an issue with one of the servers, where a bunch of services were attaching to IPv6 ports instead of the IPv4 ones. Rather than editing the configuration of each of these services, I wanted to simply disabled IPv6 on the machine. In the old … Continue reading How to disable IPv6 on CentOS \/ RHEL 7<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How to disable IPv6 on CentOS \/ RHEL 7 #Linux #RedHat #CentOS #Fedora #networks","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,133,62],"tags":[3246,2351,281,2157,2289],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-42452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-technology","tag-centos-linux","tag-fedora-linux","tag-networks","tag-red-hat-linux","tag-web-hosting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t