[141995] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AAAA on various websites, but they all forgot to enable them
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Jun 15 15:24:41 2011
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:24:44 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4DF90487.1030600@mompl.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/15/2011 12:14, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> Octavio Alvarez wrote:
>> In fact. Although a website of mine worked flawlessly in a dual-stack
>> but it did NOT in an IPv6-only environment. Unfortunately, the problem
>> has to be fixed in the DNS provider, which though supporting AAAA
>> records was enough to "support IPv6".
>
> Why not run your own nameserver if it is your website assuming you own
> the domain?
>
> Out of curiosity, what are the options you need to use to properly
> enable bind for IPv6? To me it appears there isn't that much to it, it
> almost works out of the box with 1 or 2 things turned on. Then you just
> add the appropriate zone files or records. Am I missing something
> blatantly obvious that will break it?
>
listen-on-v6 { any; };
Simple as that. Indicate individual addresses, if preferred. Or switch
to a DNS provider that has made this monumental configuration effort.
~Seth
