enable startup options on Bind on Fedora

martdj2 · 01-11-2010, 09:56 AM

Hi all,
I've just configured a bind server for my home domain on Fedora 12. One thing that's buggering me is that Bind tries to do its lookups first with IPv6, which fails and then falls back to IPv4. This seems to me an unnecessary use of resources, so I'd like to turn this off. This is possible by using the option named -4, but there comes the part where I'm an absolute newbie. the Named start/stop script is defined in the /etc/rc.d/init.d dir, but how can I get Fedora to start this script with the named -4 option?

bathory · 01-11-2010, 11:40 AM

Hi,

You can add the option you want in /etc/sysconfig/named:

Code:

OPTIONS="-4"

Regards

martdj2 · 01-11-2010, 12:06 PM

That did the trick. Thanks!