named manual says about -4: -4 Use IPv4 only even if the host machine is capable of IPv6. I used named -4 but log output said: 22-Sep-2014 14:20:18.922 using default UDP/IPv6 port range: [1024, 65535] 22-Sep-2014 14:20:18.923 no IPv6 interfaces found ... 22-Sep-2014 14:20:24.899 no IPv6 interfaces found It said that 81 times within 16 minutes. On another named -4 run, I had it configured with: listen-on-v6 { none; }; and it had the same behaviour. I didn't configure all the various other transfer etc tunables for v6 to try to turn it off. So why is use-v6-udp-ports done if -4 switch sets disable6 to true? And why is isc_net_probeipv6() done if disable6 is true? Either let's use disable6 or let's fix documentation. Thanks