Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:40:44 -0600 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> To: Peter Haight <peterh@sapros.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gethostbyname2 and AF_INET6 Message-ID: <200205132040.g4DKeitI090846@orthanc.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 May 2002 13:28:45 PDT." <200205132028.g4DKSjUn053297@wartch.sapros.com>
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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Haight <peterh@sapros.com> writes:
Peter> Of course. What's a good thing to tell them? Is the problem
Peter> that their DNS server isn't correctly responding to a query
Peter> with an unknown QTYPE?
The most common error is for the server to return an authoritative
NXDOMAIN response to an AAAA (or A6) query. The culprit seems to
be one particular DNS server (written in perl IIRC). The author of
the software was informed of the problem and a fixed version is
available. So I would ask first if they are running a perl-based
DNS server, and if the answer is "yes" then advise them to install
the latest version.
This was discussed within the last few weeks across a couple of
mailing lists. I don't recall which specific lists, but you could
try digging through a NANOG archive.
--lyndon
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