On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Tony van der Hoff <t...@vanderhoff.org> wrote: > > I know this is a FAQ, so apologies, but after much googling I've been unable > to find a remedy. > > I run my own caching BIND9 under squeeze, and as far as I'm aware it's > correctly set up. > > I'm using Thunderbird as my MUA, with an IMAP host on my VPS, > smtp.vanderhoff.org. > > When trying to read or send mail I invariably get a DNS timeout: > Dec 28 10:11:23 tony-lx named[1768]: error (unexpected RCODE SERVFAIL) > resolving 'smtp.vanderhoff.org/AAAA/IN': 91.121.205.64#53 > Dec 28 10:11:27 tony-lx named[1768]: error (network unreachable) resolving > 'smtp.vanderhoff.org/AAAA/IN': 2001:41d0:1:d640::1#53 > > Well, that appears to be looking for an IPv6 address, and as my router > doesn't support IPv6, it's bound to go wrong. > > As far as I'm aware, nowhere do I require bind9 to look up IPv6 addresses, > and I have > listen-on-v6 { none; }; > in my named.conf.options.
"listen-on-v6 { none; }" only prevents queries being made using ipv6 as a transport method not queries for the resolution of ipv6 addresses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sztirew2qfzonwd5t29rppekoe07z0dqkdw5f_2bb-...@mail.gmail.com