Ah Ha! Four times the bytes, so four times the A's. Cute.... Chuck
---------- Original Message ----------- From: Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfa...@virtbiz.com> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it> Sent: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:37:40 -0500 Subject: [BlueOnyx:11584] Re: IPv6 AAAA Record > Hi Chuck, > > Chuck Tetlow wrote: > > Actually Chris - I've seen it work both ways, even inside a single zone > > file. I've done my DNS tables by hand with VI for years, so I'm > > comfortable with that. But others use tools like Webmin to make > > changes/additions. Webmin has a bad habit of putting the entire > > HOSTNAME.FQDN in the zone file. (That's also how I can tell what's been > > changed by someone else!). > > > > Bind never seems to mind. It works for those hostnames both before I > > take out the extra FQDN characters, and after. So that shouldn't be > > causing his problem. > > Hmmmm. I have always used only the hostname. I've been doing that > since 1996 so I really can't tell you a rhyme or reason for it or that > one way is "right" and the other is "wrong." Just that's always how > I've done it, and that's of course how BlueOnyx generates its zones as well. > > Someone else may care to research that one. Or not. ;) > > > BUT... What is a "AAAA" record? The "A" record, I know. But a "AAAA"???? > > AAAA record = IPv6 A record > > -- > Chris Gebhardt > VIRTBIZ Internet Services > Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated > www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ > _______________________________________________ > Blueonyx mailing list > Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it > http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx ------- End of Original Message -------
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