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Yes but, AFAIK, there is no configuration on the nsswitch to disable AAAA DNS queries.

Hello Rémi, I agree with you in principle, but that is not the case with most applications and libs in linux. I've tried sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 but there were still DNS queries for both A and AAAA records. From what I could gather, there is not other way on linux to disable DNS A...

Hello, I made a small linux program that uses libVLC to simulate remote video playback without actually rendering the video (to test if playback stops due to buffer underrun). This is working fine, but I needed to turn IPv6 off so that, when performing DNS resolution, no AAAA queries are sent. I was...