On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:50:32PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: | Thus spake Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:33:39PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: | > > I'm trying to get IPv6 running on 2 of my systems. One is Unstable, | > > the other is Stable. On both of them I do a: <snip> | > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: | > > ;test-ip6.company.com. IN A | > | > You're asking the wrong question. A records don't point to IPv6 | > addresses. | > | > Try 'host -t aaaa test-ip6.company.com'. | | Ok, that resolves. Now if I put: | | hosts: files dns | | I can ping6 a machine on my local lan. If I put dns first it doesn't | resolve properly.
Does your DNS server AAAA records or just A records? Some apps will try an AAAA record first, and failing that fall back to the A record. If you are setting up the system as v6 only, opening a v4 socket will (naturally) fail. Perhaps this is what you are seeing? -D -- (E)ventually (M)allocs (A)ll (C)omputer (S)torage http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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