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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