How to prevent xinetd creating IPv6 sockets

Issue

• Is there a simple way of preventing xinetd from creating IPv6 sockets even though you have disabled the IPv6 module?

• In /etc/modprobe.d/ipv6.conf IPv6 is completely disabled using using:

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  options ipv6 disable=1
  blacklist ipv6
  

  However, messages are received in syslog which are misleading and and can cause people to check for issues unnecessarily:

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  Mar 14 09:41:33 kvm-guest-74 xinetd[3878]: IPv6 socket creation failed for service guest_service_D01, trying IPv4
  Mar 14 09:41:33 kvm-guest-74 xinetd[3878]: IPv6 socket creation failed for service guest_service_D02, trying IPv4
  Mar 14 09:41:33 kvm-guest-74 xinetd[3878]: IPv6 socket creation failed for service guest_service_D03, trying IPv4
  Mar 14 09:41:33 kvm-guest-74 xinetd[3878]: IPv6 socket creation failed for service guest_service_D04, trying IPv4
  

• There is no obvious global option in man xinetd.conf. It is possible to prevent the attempt to create an IPv6 socket by specifying:

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  flags           = IPv4
  

  In the config file for the service. This is unweildy where there are many services and is a change from behaviour in RHEL 5.