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FS#704 - dns lookup AAAA records

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Johannes Jordan (FoPref) - Wednesday, 07 April 2004, 17:32 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Wednesday, 07 April 2004, 18:18 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

dns can't lookup AAAA records. these are needed for the resolution of ipv6 adresses. you don't need ipv6 to look them up, dns servers also provide them over ipv4.
this is _very_ annoying as most times you _can't_ use the ipv6 addresses themselves but have to use a hostname (also they are hard to remember anyway ;). writing every ipv6 address one wants to connect to into /etc/hosts/ isn't a real solution.
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Tuesday, 08 June 2004, 23:48 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Wednesday, 07 April 2004, 18:19 GMT
Can you give me an ipv6 hostname I can test with?
Comment by Johannes Jordan (FoPref) - Thursday, 08 April 2004, 00:20 GMT
I seem to be a kinda dumb user, as further investigations brought me to the conclusion that this seems to be an application-side problem.

In fact, some applications successfully can resolve ipv6 hosts (some weeks ago I had other impressions on this). Another user who had this problem perhaps is as silly as I am ;)

The command "host" doesn't work with AAAA entrys (although man page tells about), but this seems to be normal on linux machines. I only had a bsd which worked fine to compare. Now I saw it doesn't work on debian systems as well. xmms packet and some others seem to be compiled without ipv6 support, so I should have written this request for xmms. Well, there are other apps, too...

Anyway, here an example host:
sijojord@ente:sijojord [1]> host lanrules.hawo.ipv6.uni-erlangen.de
lanrules.hawo.ipv6.uni-erlangen.de has address 2001:638:a00:f00b:210:5aff:fe39:7fc2
lanrules.hawo.ipv6.uni-erlangen.de mail is handled (pri=10) by elefant.hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de
[...]
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Monday, 07 June 2004, 14:58 GMT
$ host -t aaaa lanrules.hawo.ipv6.uni-erlangen.de
lanrules.hawo.ipv6.uni-erlangen.de AAAA 2001:638:A00:F00B:210:5AFF:FE39:7FC2
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 08 June 2004, 23:48 GMT
Confirmed. Works for me.

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