Is ubuntu trying to resolve localhost to an ipv6 address?

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, john wrote:

> I think that's not the behaviour I want since I am not running ipv6
> and I don't need the extra chatter on the network.
> If I change /etc/modprobe.d/aliases to read
> 
> alias net-pf-10 ipv6 off
> 
> will bad things happen?

Probably not, but disabling IPv6 is really not necessary.  You could just
put a "not ip6" filter in wireshark.

Gavin