STIGUI
V-215357CAT II — Medium severitySV-215357r958478_rule

If IPv6 is not utilized on AIX server, the autoconf6 daemon must be disabled.

Rule version AIX7-00-003051 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-31

Discussion

"autoconf6" is used to automatically configure IPv6 interfaces at boot time. Running this service may allow other hosts on the same physical subnet to connect via IPv6, even when the network does not support it. Disable this unless you use IPv6 on the server.

Check

From the command prompt, execute the following command: # grep "^start[[:blank:]]/usr/sbin/autoconf6" /etc/rc.tcpip

If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.

Fix

In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "autoconf6" entry by running command: # chrctcp -d autoconf6

Identifiers

Group ID
V-215357
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-215357r958478_rule
Check ID
C-16555r569497_chk
Fix ID
F-16553r569498_fix