Test your connectivity for World IPv6 Day

Bill Owens owens at nysernet.org
Mon Jun 6 17:37:31 CEST 2011


On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 04:54:09PM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> > What nameserver A record does resolving whoami.akamai.net indicate
> > that you have?
> 
> The IPv4 IP of my DNS server 8-(
> 
> What is required to teach bind to try to query via IPv6 ?

It should be automatic if named is built with v6 support, which happens in the configure process if you have v6 OS support on the build machine. However, akamai.net doesn't have any v6-reachable nameservers, so I get the same v4 result even though all of my resolvers have v6 connectivity. . .

Bill.


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