Andrew Benton wrote: > Hello World! > I've installed bind as described in BLFS and have done for years; it's > never given me any problems and speeds up browsing. It's normally the > only nameserver I need so I have only needed 1 line in /etc/resolv.conf: > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > However, I recently found I am unable to open pages at www.nhs.uk in > Firefox. /var/log/sys.log has lines like this: > > Jun 15 16:22:05 eccles named[911]: network unreachable resolving > 'www.nhs.uk/A/IN': 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53 > Jun 15 16:22:07 eccles named[911]: network unreachable resolving > 'nsa.nhs.uk/AAAA/IN': 2001:7fe::53#53 > > The 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53 bit makes me suspect that the problem is > something to do with IPv6; I think that named only works for IPv4 as I > have an IPv4 connection. To work out what could be wrong I downloaded > google's namebench and it has suggested a couple of nameservers to add > to /etc/resolv.conf so it now looks like this: > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > nameserver 8.8.4.4 # Google Public DNS-2 > nameserver 62.24.128.17 # OpalTelecom G/TalkTalk GB > > With these nameservers I can now browse pages at www.nhs.uk but I'm not > happy with this solution. I'd rather fix bind so it works properly. Can > anyone give me some pointers as to how I can debug/fix the problem?
Andy, I agree with you that it appears to be an IPV6 issue, but the question is how would it get fixed? There would need to be some sort of active proxy to get from an IPV4 address to an IPV6 address. Perhaps named just inquires via the kernel. Is IPV6 enabled there? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
