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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi,<br><br>I would want my Test DNS Server running bind Version: bind-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6.x86_64/bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6.x86_64 to listen for Requests on both IPV4 and IPV6. <br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>I made the following changes in Options --> Added <b>listen-on-v6 { any; };</b><br><br>options {<br> directory "/var/named";<br> dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";<br> statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";<br> memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";<br> allow-query { any; };<br> <b>listen-on-v6 { any; };</b><br> recursion no;<br><br> /* Path to ISC DLV key */<br> bindkeys-file "/etc/named.iscdlv.key";<br><br> managed-keys-directory "/var/named/dynamic";<br>};<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>and I made a simple test to figure if this was working --><br><br># dig localhost @::1<br><br>; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6 <<>> localhost @::1<br>;; global options: +cmd<br>;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached<br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>cat /etc/hosts<br>127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4<br>::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6<br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>I see that named is not listening on IPV6<br><br>[root@guntur named]# netstat -lnptu |grep "named\W*$"<br>tcp 0 0 10.54.78.28:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 7331/named<br>tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 7331/named<br>tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:953 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 7331/named<br>tcp 0 0 ::1:953 :::* LISTEN 7331/named<br>udp 0 0 10.54.78.28:53 0.0.0.0:* 7331/named<br>udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* 7331/named<br><br><br>[root@guntur named]# netstat -tupanl | grep ":53 "<br>tcp 0 0 10.54.78.28:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 7331/named<br>tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 7331/named<br>udp 0 0 10.54.78.28:53 0.0.0.0:* 7331/named<br>udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* 7331/named<br><br>What changes would be required to make Bind Listen on both IPV4 and IPV6?<br><br>Thanks<br>Harshith<br><br><br> </div></body>
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