On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
Possibly never, but at least for a long time. The current DNS system is IPv4 only, but serves both IPv4 and IPv6. If you have your DNS set up to include IPv6, the information will be available, but the client needs to be able to interpet it.
Some root-servers now have IPv6 addresses. Until I started writing this, I was under the impression that all did, but according to ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root (which is the authoritative source for the root-servers list), only A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET have IPv6 addresses.
Since BIND is open source software, nothing is preventing you or anyone else from adding IPv6 support to it. Eventually someone will do it, and 100% IPv6 networks will become possible.
Are you saying that Bind cannot connect to DNS root-servers over IPv6? What other functionality is it missing? Certainly we run a virtual server on an IPv6 connection that also runs an authoritative DNS server for those domains and we've experienced no problems.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not fully up on IPv6 stuff. Geoff. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
