Dlink DI-624 and IPV6

*WARNING* My conclusions here are based on observation, not any =20
specific facts related to the unit or from what I could find on the =20
internet, but I thought I'd share the info anyway.

Recently I decided to switch from Centos to Ubuntu (7.1 - Edgy).

First of all, this was not painless.  These two distros are =20
significantly different.

Luckily for me the Ubuntu crowd documents things reasonably well.

This change is important to state because at the time of the =20
changeover, my DI-624 started to reboot itself and seemingly random =20
intervals.

It turns out that in some way the IPV6 that is setup automatically on =20
new Ubuntu installs causes this problem for the DI-624.

The DI-624 is configured to be a DNS caching server for my internal network.

My personal guess is that The DI-624 didn't handle IPV6 DNS resolution =20
well and that caused the unit to loose its mind and reboot...which is =20
better than the unit just stopping all together.

So turning off IPV6 on all my machines (Macs, PC with Vista, my Ubuntu =20
server) cleared the problem right up.

I probably could have also solved the problem by creating a DNS =20
caching server to handle the ipv6 requests, but didn't want to spend =20
the time.

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