Re: disabling ipV6
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
>
> I know this is a FAQ, so apologies, but after much googling I've been unable
> to find a remedy.
>
> I run my own caching BIND9 under squeeze, and as far as I'm aware it's
> correctly set up.
>
> I'm using Thunderbird as my MUA, with an IMAP host on my VPS,
> smtp.vanderhoff.org.
>
> When trying to read or send mail I invariably get a DNS timeout:
> Dec 28 10:11:23 tony-lx named[1768]: error (unexpected RCODE SERVFAIL)
> resolving 'smtp.vanderhoff.org/AAAA/IN': 91.121.205.64#53
> Dec 28 10:11:27 tony-lx named[1768]: error (network unreachable) resolving
> 'smtp.vanderhoff.org/AAAA/IN': 2001:41d0:1:d640::1#53
>
> Well, that appears to be looking for an IPv6 address, and as my router
> doesn't support IPv6, it's bound to go wrong.
>
> As far as I'm aware, nowhere do I require bind9 to look up IPv6 addresses,
> and I have
> listen-on-v6 { none; };
> in my named.conf.options.
"listen-on-v6 { none; }" only prevents queries being made using ipv6
as a transport method not queries for the resolution of ipv6
addresses.
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