[97734] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Sat Jun 30 05:11:00 2007
In-Reply-To: <4685E472.4050200@satchell.net>
Cc: John Curran <jcurran@mail.com>,
Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox@packetrade.com>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:09:46 +0200
To: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 30-jun-2007, at 7:04, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> That includes DNS, by the way. I'm deploying new DNS servers, and
> would be *very* interested in how to convince BIND 9.2.4 to answer
> IPv6 queries.
If you give the box BIND runs on an IPv6 address, it'll use IPv6 to
perform queries when remote nameservers have IPv6 glue records. If
you have your DNS server's address put into glue records, it will
receive IPv6 queries and hence send out replies over IPv6.
More info:
http://www.apress.com/book/supplementDownload.html?bID=10026&sID=3120
