Listening to IPv6

General
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The output of "pihole status" shows:

  [✓] FTL is listening on port 53
     [✓] UDP (IPv4)
     [✓] TCP (IPv4)
     [✓] UDP (IPv6)
     [✓] TCP (IPv6)

  [✓] Pi-hole blocking is enabled

However, IPv6 is disabled in /etc/sysctl.conf and in pihole-FTL.conf (with RESOLVE_IPV6=false).
In addition there are no IPv6 DNS servers configured.

Where is the above coming from?
Anything I can do to disable these pihole-FTL IPv6 listeners?

Thank you - Will

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I don't think this is something that you should worry about.
If you've disabled your host OS's IPv6 networking, then Pi-hole won't have IPv6 connectivity either.

The message may be related to Pi-hole's embedded dnsmasq/pihole-FTL default behaviour (and technically, it may be correct).

By default, pihole-FTL will bind the wildcard address, so it can provide services on all interfaces as they come and go, i.e. if you'd reenable IPv6, Pi-hole would be able to serve its host's IPv6 addresses straight away.

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