Re: IPV6 DNS query

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

Thanks everyone for the replies, especially to Tom for the answer. 

On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:47:50 +0000, elbbit wrote:

> :~$ host -6 www.debian.org
> www.debian.org has address 86.59.118.148 www.debian.org has address
> 82.195.75.97 www.debian.org has IPv6 address
> 2001:41b8:202:deb:216:35ff:fec4:6340 www.debian.org has IPv6 address
> 2001:858:2:2:214:22ff:fe0d:7717

$ dig www.debian.org aaaa

; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> www.debian.org aaaa
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56784
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.debian.org.                        IN      AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.debian.org.         218     IN      AAAA    2607:f8f0:610:4000:211:25ff:fec4:5b28

;; Query time: 38 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.100#53(192.168.2.100)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar  3 21:58:14 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 60

I was expecting that the answer will be one of the previous "www.debian.org 
has IPv6 address"... Any explanation to this?

Thanks

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