BIND 9 AAAA record problems

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Wed Jun 23 16:26:59 UTC 2004


wbwither at bobball.uchicago.edu wrote:
> Hello list,

> I'm having trouble when a client requests an AAAA record for my site.  I
> don't have any AAAA records, only A records.  (fyi: the site is
> www.efori.com)
> I have gone from BIND 8.3.7 to 8.4.1 to 9.2.2 on FreeBSD 4.9 in order to
> try to fix this.  Obviously I've got something wrong elsewhere since none
> of these versions of BIND has worked.  On Mozilla/Linux, I can trace 4
> AAAA query, 5 seconds apart, to my ISP's DNS server.  Only after these 4
> have failed do I send an A query.  My dumb Windows machine will connect
> immediately, as it only sends A queries.  AAAA queries for other domains
> on my ISP's DNS server resolve as they should, so it's not their fault
> either.
> I know that BIND should return an empty, non-error response.  But what do
> I need to configure in order for this to happen?
> Thank you,

remove ipv6 support in your nameserver(s).  or use the 
"[ listen-on-v6 [ port ip_port ] { address_match_list }; ]" directive 
in options :  " listen-on-v6 { none;}; "



> -Brock Witherspoon




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