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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:14:48 +0900
From:      JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
To:        Jens-Ulrik Petersen <jens-ulrik.petersen@nokia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, users@ipv6.org
Subject:   Re: dns lookup with IPv6 transport?
Message-ID:  <y7vd7gzpvmf.wl@condor.isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: In your message of "17 Oct 2000 15:58:57 %2B0900" <m3og0kvtqm.fsf@tolnx04.europe.nokia.com>
References:  <m3og0kvtqm.fsf@tolnx04.europe.nokia.com>

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>>>>> On 17 Oct 2000 15:58:57 +0900, 
>>>>> Jens-Ulrik Petersen <jens-ulrik.petersen@nokia.com> said:

> We have just connected a small network to the 6bone.  However
> currently we have a pure ipv6 connection (ie no ipv4 address
> allocation!).

> We want to do dnslookup using IPv6 transport from a FreeBSD-4.1R box.
> Simple configuration suggests dnslookup over IPv6 is not supported.
> Is it possible to configuration the kernel/libc/system to allow
> dnslookups over IPv6?  Or does it require using bind?  (If bind is
> required, is it bind-9?)

If I remember correctly, FreeBSD 4.1 supports IPv6 of DNS transport.

I don't know much about FreeBSD configuration , but how about trying
to add the following in your /etc/resolv.conf?
nameserver xxxx:yyyy:zzzz:...
where xxxx:... is the IPv6 address of your DNS server.

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp


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