From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 13 13:40:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (orthanc.ab.ca [216.123.203.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD84037B405 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 13:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost.orthanc.ab.ca [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4DKeitI090846; Mon, 13 May 2002 14:40:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Message-Id: <200205132040.g4DKeitI090846@orthanc.ab.ca> From: Lyndon Nerenberg Organization: The Frobozz Magic Homing Pigeon Company To: Peter Haight Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gethostbyname2 and AF_INET6 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 May 2002 13:28:45 PDT." <200205132028.g4DKSjUn053297@wartch.sapros.com> X-Mailer: mh-e 5.0.92; MH 6.8.4; Emacs 21.2 Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:40:44 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Haight writes: Peter> Of course. What's a good thing to tell them? Is the problem Peter> that their DNS server isn't correctly responding to a query Peter> with an unknown QTYPE? The most common error is for the server to return an authoritative NXDOMAIN response to an AAAA (or A6) query. The culprit seems to be one particular DNS server (written in perl IIRC). The author of the software was informed of the problem and a fixed version is available. So I would ask first if they are running a perl-based DNS server, and if the answer is "yes" then advise them to install the latest version. This was discussed within the last few weeks across a couple of mailing lists. I don't recall which specific lists, but you could try digging through a NANOG archive. --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message