question about IPv6-DNS-nameserver link-local (with Interface-name)

[Frank Bulk (iname.com)]

Have any of you opened an ISC BIND bug?

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: ipv6-ops-bounces+frnkblk=iname.com at lists.cluenet.de [mailto:ipv6-ops-bounces+frnkblk=iname.com at lists.cluenet.de] On Behalf Of Tony Finch
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 11:55 AM
To: admin at cis.uni-muenchen.de
Cc: ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de
Subject: Re: question about IPv6-DNS-nameserver link-local (with Interface-name)

Thomas Schäfer <thomas at cis.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>
> Opensuse/NetworkManager writes to /etc/resolv.conf
>
> nameserver fe80::d27a:b5ff:fe7b:e152%wlan0
>
> So far so good.
> But not all applications accept this DNS-Resolver.
>
> "host" and "dig" make problems.
>
> But I am not sure, where is the bug?

I think the bug is that host and dig fail to read the scope on the
link-local address. (This is a bug in the BIND lwres resolv.conf
parser which dig and host use.)

> Is it ok, to assign link-local-addresses in /etc/resolv.conf?

I think most libc resolvers handle them correctly. Your milage will
obviously vary with other code. For example, ldns also fails to handle
scoped IPv6 addresses.

Tony.
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