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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">That’s not a valid IPv6 address representation. You probably mistyped a double colon as a single colon in the middle of the address.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">(RFC 4291)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2.2. Text Representation of Addresses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> There are three conventional forms for representing IPv6 addresses as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> text strings:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 1. The preferred form is x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x, where the 'x's are one to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> four hexadecimal digits of the eight 16-bit pieces of the address.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Examples:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> ABCD:EF01:2345:6789:ABCD:EF01:2345:6789<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 2001:DB8:0:0:8:800:200C:417A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Note that it is not necessary to write the leading zeros in an<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> individual field, but there must be at least one numeral in every<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> field (except for the case described in 2.).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 2. Due to some methods of allocating certain styles of IPv6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> addresses, it will be common for addresses to contain long strings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> of zero bits. In order to make writing addresses containing zero<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> bits easier, a special syntax is available to compress the zeros.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> The use of "::" indicates one or more groups of 16 bits of zeros.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> The "::" can only appear once in an address. The "::" can also be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> used to compress leading or trailing zeros in an address.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> - Kevin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> bind-users [mailto:bind-users-bounces@lists.isc.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chakrapani, Praveen CTR via bind-users<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 13, 2016 4:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'bind-users@lists.isc.org'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> forwarders (IPv6)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I added below line to my named.conf to include IPv6 addresses to the forwarders list. However I am getting this error
<b>“Sep 13 10:33:06 servername named[24778]: [ID 873579 daemon.error] /etc/named.conf:158: expected IP address near '2001:1890:1C04:3000:0CB7:4432'”</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>“forwarders { 12.227.230.4; 12.227.230.10; 12.183.68.50; 12.183.68.51; 12.71.76.50; 12.71.76.51; 2001:1890:1C04:3000:0CB7:4432; 2001:1890:1C04:3000:0CB7:4433; 2001:1890:1C04:3400:0C47:4C32; 2001:1890:1C04:3400:0C47:4C33; };<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> forward first;”<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please let know how to add IPv6 addresses to the forwarders list.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Praveen Kumar Chakrapani (CTR)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">AECOM Contractor, Lead UNIX Administrator<br>
Desk (202)326-3282 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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