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Disable ipv6 support
Apache
By default, Apache will listen on all IPs, both IPv6 and IPv4. This is controlled by the Listen directive:
Listen 80
To turn off IPv6 in Apache, just change the Listen directive in /etc/apache2/ports.conf
to
Listen 0.0.0.0:80
Repeat this for port 443 for HTTPS connections.
Then restart apache
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
SSHD
By default, SSHD will listen on all IPs. This is configured in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
as ListenAddress option.
To force SSHD to only listen to IPv4 explicitly set this:
ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
Then restart SSHD
/etc/init.d/ssh restart
postfix
vi /etc/postfix/main.cf
Add inet_protocols line after inet_interfaces:
inet_protocols = ipv4
and restart postfix
/etc/init.d/postfix restart
Dovecot
vi /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
and add/change listen after the protocols = imap etc line, so it reads
listen = *
and restart dovecot
/etc/init.d/dovecot restart
EXIM
vi /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
and change dc_local_interfaces so it reads
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
and restart exim
/etc/init.d/exim4 restart
x11vnc
x11vnc has a -no6 option. This was broken in libvncserver1 package before 0.9.11.
x11vnc -no6
System wide
echo "# Disable IPv6" >> /etc/sysctl.conf echo "net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf echo "#" >> /etc/sysctl.conf sysctl -p
reboot system at some point
Confirm open connections
lsof -i