BIND trying to use IPv6 for recursion

2012-01-13 Thread Ian Pilcher
I am a relative newbie to running BIND in production. I have recently set up BIND 9.7 (on CentOS 6.2) as the nameserver for my home network. I am using Google's public DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as my forwarders). My ISP does not support IPv6, and none of the network interfaces on the

Re: BIND trying to use IPv6 for recursion

2012-01-13 Thread Bill Owens
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:20:39AM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: I am a relative newbie to running BIND in production. I have recently set up BIND 9.7 (on CentOS 6.2) as the nameserver for my home network. I am using Google's public DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as my forwarders). My ISP

Re: BIND trying to use IPv6 for recursion

2012-01-13 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 01/13/2012 11:50 AM, Bill Owens wrote: I'm not familiar with CentOS, but I would be surprised to hear that any modern Linux distro didn't have IPv6 enabled by default; you should see at least link-local addresses on your active interfaces (address family inet6, beginning with fe80::) I'm

SOLVED: BIND trying to use IPv6 for recursion

2012-01-13 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 01/13/2012 11:20 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: My ISP does not support IPv6, and none of the network interfaces on the server has an IPv6 address (including the loopback interface). Despite this, BIND appears to be trying to use IPv6 to communicate with other nameservers. I finally stumbled on

Re: BIND trying to use IPv6 for recursion

2012-01-13 Thread Eric Kom
Good day, configure /etc/default/bind9 file like: OPTIONS=-4 -u bind -4 for IPv4. Bind was confusing between IPv4 and IPv6. On 13/01/2012 19:20, Ian Pilcher wrote: I am a relative newbie to running BIND in production. I have recently set up BIND 9.7 (on CentOS 6.2) as the nameserver for