Re: bind9 and ipv6 addresses

[Remco van de Meent <remco@vandemeent.net>]

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

@ORIGIN ipv6.utwente.nl
localhost      AAAA  ::1

$ host -t any localhost.ipv6.utwente.nl
localhost.ipv6.utwente.nl       AAAA    0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1

This is with bind-9.1.3.

Maybe ::1 is not valid for A6 RRs... but it seems to work for quad-A
RRs.  


regards,
Remco.
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