DNS support

[Peter Bunclark]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Bo Nilso wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Building my first IP v6 test network. Have router, and 3 nodes.
>
> In my Solaris( machine, I have the DNS prepared with AAAA records. It
> responds correctly to queries, but only if the QUERY comes across IPv4.
>
> Questions:
>
> - How can I get it to respond to DNS lookups (UDP 53) across V6?

Have you put listen-on-ipv6 in named.conf ? (You _are_ running bind 9.x ?)
options {
        directory "/var/named";
        pid-file "/var/named/named.pid";
        listen-on-v6 { any; };
...

>
> - Does nslookup in solaris SUPPORT V6? When I say "server f6-6", wich is
> the same machine, but a name with only the V6 address, it says "Server
> failed".
# nslookup -q=aaaa hostname
>
> - Does Linux or FreeBSD have a more complete V6 support for DNS, both
> server and resolv?
You're not runnind bind 9.x, are you?
>
> /Bosse

Pete.