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Re: A question about DNS.



On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Justin The Cynical
<cynical@penguinness.org> wrote:
> On 3/16/11 11:42 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   I do not know how to summarize my problem in a short sentence, sorry
>> for the meaningless title.
>>   I cannot access *.dropbox.com here. But lucky I have a ipv6 tunnel
>> working. So I have an idea here:
>>     redirect all queries to *.dropbox.com to *.dropbox.com.sixxs.org
>> to make dropbox tools working.
>>   So I installed bind9 and set it as local DNS service. But then I
>> missed. CNAME does not seem work.
>>   Any idea? Thanks.
>
> I'm assuming that access to dropbox is blocked somewhere upstream of you
> via a filter of some kind.  With that in mind...
>
> $dig dropbox.com aaaa
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> dropbox.com aaaa
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 7943
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;dropbox.com.                   IN      AAAA
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> dropbox.com.            10800   IN      SOA     dns1.nettica.com. hostmaster.nettica.com.
> 2539 3600 600 86400 43200
>
> ;; Query time: 9923 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.168.78.65#53(192.168.78.65)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Mar 17 00:58:57 2011
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 89
>
> Considering that dropbox doesn't appear to have an IPv6 side, your only
> option that I can think of is to find a IPv6 to IPv4 proxy, which I
> don't think exists, or a 'standard' IPv4 proxy.
>
>
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>

Yes, dropbox does not support ipv6 it self. But
www.dropbox.com.sixxs.org works here. sixxs.org is a 6to4 tunnel
service.

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