turning off IPv6

[Stephen Bunn]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 17:01 +1200, Michal Ludvig wrote:
> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure it can be turned off that way.  I certainly don't have a
> > line loading it in my /etc/modules.  
> 
> Add these two lines at the end of /etc/modprobe.conf(.local):
> 
> alias net-pf-10 off
> alias ipv6 off
> 
> Then reboot your machine.
> 

If this file doesn't exist should I create it?  and
shouldn't /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist be used for this?