(usagi-users 00494) Re: can not resolve names

[Juan Fco Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, this could be the problem.

Now we have upgrade to named9, and now all is ok.

Best Regards.

Stig Venaas escribió:
> 
> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:28:42PM +0200, Juan Fco Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
> > In a mail of Stig Venas, he said:
> >
> > >>> If you want to use IPv6 transport for DNS lookups and your resolver
> > >>> doesn't support it, then I might have a solution for you.
> >
> > >>> At http://www.venaas.no/dns/bind/ you can find a patch for the BIND
> > >>> 8.2.3 resolver that makes it use IPv6 transport. You can then put
> > >>> IPv6 addresses for nameservers in resolv.conf and link programs with
> > >>> the 8.2.3 resolver (-lbind) rather than your current resolver libs.
> 
> This patch is based on what I did for glibc 2.2 and which USAGI has
> backported to 2.1.
> 
> > So, with glic 2.2, I can set an IPv6 address in /etc/resolv.conf
> > nameserver tag, can not I?
> 
> Yes with 2.2 you should be able to specify IPv6 addresses for name-
> servers in resolv.conf.
> 
> > My /etc/resolv.conf (for Linux with glibc22 *without* any USAGI patches
> > is):
> >
> > search it.uc3m.es
> > #nameserver 3ffe:3328:6:ffff:2c0:26ff:fea0:adee
> > nameserver 163.117.139.31
> >
> > If I change the nameserver with an IPv6 address, all happens to work
> > correctly,
> > but the "ping6 mira.ipv6":
> >
> > jrh@ladilla:~$ ping6 mira.ipv6
> > ping: mira.ipv6: Name or service not known
> >
> > The same happens with "nameserver <IPv4>".
> > The name mira.ipv6 is a AAAA record.
> >
> > If I make a ping to a A record, all works fine.
> 
> Okay, so it works with some applications but not ping? Maybe ping
> is linked with another resolver.
> 
> Stig

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