--- On Mon, 12/28/09, Kevin Oberman <ober...@es.net> wrote:
> From: Kevin Oberman <ober...@es.net> > Subject: Re: IPv6 TCP > To: "Pamela Rock" <prock...@yahoo.com> > Cc: "Mark Andrews" <ma...@isc.org>, "Chuck Anderson" <c...@wpi.edu>, > bind-users@lists.isc.org > Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 10:08 PM > > Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:02:29 > -0800 (PST) > > From: Pamela Rock <prock...@yahoo.com> > > > > > > > > --- On Mon, 12/28/09, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> > wrote: > > > > > From: Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> > > > Subject: Re: IPv6 TCP > > > To: "Pamela Rock" <prock...@yahoo.com> > > > Cc: "Kevin Oberman" <ober...@es.net>, > "Chuck Anderson" <c...@wpi.edu>, bind-users@lists.isc.org > > > Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 8:22 PM > > > > > > In message <475084.65186...@web110304.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>, > > > Pamela Rock writes: > > > > This query is to anyone in general, based on > the > > > previous dig statement, do= > > > > es the following command make sense?? > > > > > > > > dig -6 www.es.net @some:ipv6:address +tcp > > > > > > > > I'm wondering if the combination of -6, > > > @some:ipv6:address, and +tcp even m= > > > > ake sense. That is ultimately what I'm > trying to > > > achieve. > > > > > > Yes, it make sense. The following will retrieve > the > > > SOA record > > > from ns-ext.isc.org using its IPv6 address over > tcp. > > > If you put a > > > literal IPv6 address rather than a name then the > -6 is not > > > needed. > > > > That's it!! So you are saying if I can use > either -6 or > > MY:IPv6:Address, but I don't have to use both? > Is that accurate? If > > so, that resolves the issue. > > If you tell dig(1) to query an IPv6 address, it has no > choice but to > use IPv6, so -6 is unnecessary and -4 is an error. The only > reason > for the -4 and -6 options is to force that protocol to be > used when a > name is provided and it has both v4 and v6 addresses. > > That said, using -6 with an IPv6 address should not cause a > problem. It > certainly works fine for me. Yeah, you're right, it still does not work even with the -6 left off. I thought that would provide the correct response... This works... [r...@test /]# dig aaaa ip6.test.com @bind6 +notcp +short e:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf This does not... [r...@test /]# dig aaaa ip6.test.com @bind6 +tcp +short socket.c:4922: 22/Invalid argument dig: isc_socket_connect: unexpected error That last query never leaves the client resolver so the DNS does not see it. Using wireshark, there is no traffic between client and server. I'm stumped. > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley > Lab) > E-mail: ober...@es.net > Phone: +1 510 > 486-8634 > Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D > EBB3 987B 3751 > _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users