Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 14:39:51 -0400 From: Nicolas Blais <nicblais@clkroot.net> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dig -6 causes bind9 error Message-ID: <7061d9f50905261139i6ce4035fi541530f82c1e500f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A1C32D8.5010202@FreeBSD.org> References: <7061d9f50905261034l39077a73j1cb0bf7b59b54723@mail.gmail.com> <4A1C32D8.5010202@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > Nicolas Blais wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > On a 8-CURRENT machine and a 7.2-STABLE machine, whenever the command > "dig > > -6 xxxx" is issued, the following error is printed: > > Given that you appear to only have an IPv4 server in your > /etc/resolv.conf file, why would you expect that to work? The -4 and > -6 flags are only relevant when you are using a name server hostname > that has both A and AAAA records. > > That said, I agree that the error message is less than graceful, > although dig is apparently trying to be helpful in converting what > you've given it into the best IPv6 format it can think of to try and > do what you told it to do. > > > hth, > > Doug > My bad then. Oddly enough, I can resolve correctly ipv6-only domains (from the ipv4 dns list in resolv.conf), so I was wondering why dig couldn't give me the output I asked. Thanks, Nicolas.
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