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Re: bind9 and ipv6 addresses



On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 12:05:11PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| also sprach dman <dman@dman.ddts.net> [2002.03.30.0637 +0100]:
| > Does bind9 (in woody) understand IPv6 addresses?  Do I need to do
| > something special to make it serve these addresses?
| 
| it fully does:
| 
| @ORIGIN ipv6.madduck.net
| seamus.alpha IN AAAA 2001:07b0:0181::0100:1
| 
| fishbowl:~> host -t aaaa seamus.alpha.ipv6.madduck.net
| seamus.alpha.ipv6.madduck.net   AAAA    2001:7B0:181:0:0:0:100:1

That's good.  (it's actually what I expected)

| but ::1 is not a valid address for domain name resolution...

Why not?  For v4, 127.0.0.1 is perfectly valid (and debian's bind
comes with a localhost entry).  /etc/hosts has (among other entires)
    ::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
which was added automatically by the netbase upgrade quite a while ago.

TIA,
-D

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