[Pdns-users] PowerDNS cannot bind - address family problem --

[Charles Sprickman]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, kim Doff wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My PowerDNS cannot bind
>
> Logs
>
> Jul 20 17:35:41 ns1 pdns[1308]: Guardian is launching an instance
> Jul 20 17:35:41 ns1 pdns[1308]: UDP server bound to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:53
> Jul 20 17:35:41 ns1 pdns[1308]: UDP server bound to 127.0.0.1:53
> Jul 20 17:35:41 ns1 pdns[1308]: *Fatal error: Unable to acquire a UDPv6
> socket: *
> *Address family not supported by protocol*
> Jul 20 17:35:42 ns1 pdns[1218]: Our pdns instance exited with code 1

IIRC, you need to have an IPv6 address, even if it's just localhost or a 
link-local.

Look for a similar thread in the archives that I started a few months 
back.

Charles

>
> root at ns1:~# ifconfig -a lo
> lo        Link encap:Boucle locale
>          inet adr:127.0.0.1  Masque:255.0.0.0
>          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>          RX packets:10124424 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:10124424 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
>          RX bytes:2553866141 (2.3 GiB)  TX bytes:2553866141 (2.3 GiB)
>
> *No Ipv6 is set...*
>
>
> *How can I disable ipv6? *
>
> Best Regards and have a nice day!
>
> Kim
>