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Re: IPV6 DNS query



* On 2011 02 Mar 23:40 -0600, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:47 PM, elbbit <elbbit@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 03/03/11 03:18, T o n g wrote:
> >>
> >> So, how to do IPV6 DNS query?
> >
> > host -6 <hostname>
> 
> "host -6" (and "dig -6") use ipv6 to make the query but don't run an
> ipv6 query (unless they do an aaaa query by default along the a query,
> but not sure about this).

I'm running DNSmasq as an IPv4 caching DNS on my OpenWRT router for my
LAN and the -6 switch fails.  Meanwhile, not using the -6 switch does
resolve IPv6 host names.  I guess I need to figure out how to teach
DNSmasq to be an IPv6 DNS cache for my LAN as well.

- Nate >>

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