this rfc does not talk about different dns  protocols for ipv6 dns and ipv4
dns,
it talks about standard dns servers which have ipv4 and / or ipv6 stacks.
so it has nothing to do with ping6 (as the dns for it can run using ipv4,
only the icmp is ipv6).

thanks,
erez.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:58 PM, David Ronkin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sure, it'll take time while both will work ok, read this rfc:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3901.txt
>
>
>  "...When the Internet moves from IPv4 to a mixture of IPv4 and IPv6 it is
>
>    only a matter of time until this starts to happen.  The complete DNS
>    hierarchy then starts to fragment into a graph where authoritative
>    name servers for certain nodes are only accessible over a certain
>    transport.  The concern is that a resolver using only a particular
>
>    version of IP and querying information about another node using the
>    same version of IP can not do it because somewhere in the chain of
>    servers accessed during the resolution process, one or more of them
>
>    will only be accessible with the other version of IP"
>
>
>
> 2009/4/21 Erez D <[email protected]>
>
>> hi
>>
>> i can ping www.yahoo.com,
>> but when i ping6 www.yahoo.com - i get "unknow host"
>>
>> does ipv4 and ipv6 use different dns ?
>>
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