On 9/11/11 7:32 PM, "Wouter Cloetens" <[email protected]>
wrote:


>On 10/09/11 19:24, Brzozowski, John wrote:
>> My IPv6 DNS is currently forwarding to my service providers recursive
>>DNS
>> servers or some other server on the Internet.
>>
>>
>> My local IPv4 DNS server privately addressed and will forward for any
>> request it is not authoritative for, which works fine.
>>
>> I am going to change the setup so that the RFC5006 DNS server IPv6
>>address
>> and the IPv4 DNS server addresses are the same server.  This server will
>> have forwarding statements for the internal zones to the internal DNS
>> server.  I imagine this will iron things out.  Alternatively if the IPv4
>> local DNS servers were also IPv6 transport enabled I could just use it,
>> however, this is not the case.
>
>Indeed. This works fine in the setup I made for my company. Public
>lookups go upstream through my provider's IPv6 DNS server, local lookups
>go through the intranet's DNS server. Local lookups are defined as
>*.company.com and all the private IPv4 subnets. The IPv6 DNS server
>itself is authoritative for IPv6 until we merge the two some day.

[jjmb] Interesting, certainly not the case for me.  The resolver never
tries a different DNS server once it gets responses from the IPv6.  Just
confirming, the DNS server (IPv6 transport) is authoritative for
*.company.com right?  If yes, this would explain why it works for you.
>
>> The last scenario you describe below is indeed another case that
>>requires
>> attention.  I have been doing this for years as such I have had to
>> manually managed two separate DNS systems.  One that is authoritative
>> globally on the Internet and one that is locally managed.
>
>One might think there's a need to merge those...
>
>> One thing to note, while both of the above are reasonable for the
>>average
>> engineer to tackle it is unlikely that a lay person would know how to
>> manage these situations.
>
>One might think the situation would improve if dual-stack RGW's were to
>have dual-stack DNS servers embedded in them...
[jjmb] this is one way to address the matter.

>
>bfn, Wouter
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