Re: [EXTERNAL] dig and host don't work in IPv6

On 7/29/23, Andrew Schulman via Cygwin wrote: >> Sorry... Did you try using the -d option to see what DNS servers these >> commands try to actually connect to (and time out, eventually). > > No help unfortunately. > > $ host -d6 cygwin.com > Trying "cygwin.com" > ;; connection timed out; no

Re: [EXTERNAL] dig and host don't work in IPv6

> Sorry... Did you try using the -d option to see what DNS servers these > commands try to actually connect to (and time out, eventually). No help unfortunately. $ host -d6 cygwin.com Trying "cygwin.com" ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > (strace can help as well, I

RE: [EXTERNAL] dig and host don't work in IPv6

> Thanks. Unfortunately neither of those options fixes the problem. Sorry... Did you try using the -d option to see what DNS servers these commands try to actually connect to (and time out, eventually). (strace can help as well, I think.) Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem

Re: [EXTERNAL] dig and host don't work in IPv6

> > Should I be doing something differently? Or is it a bug? > > It may be sort of a limitation (IIRC, in Cygwin's minires) but: > > Did you try to use > > options=osquery > > and (separate by spaces) / or > > options=inet6 > > in /etc/resolv.conf ? Thanks. Unfortunately neither of those

RE: [EXTERNAL] dig and host don't work in IPv6

> It may be sort of a limitation (IIRC, in Cygwin's minires) but: > > Should I be doing something differently? Or is it a bug? > > the host and dig commands no longer work Reading your question again, I don't think Cygwin's minires limitation (if any) can be at play here because IIRC neither

RE: [EXTERNAL] dig and host don't work in IPv6

> Should I be doing something differently? Or is it a bug? It may be sort of a limitation (IIRC, in Cygwin's minires) but: Did you try to use options=osquery and (separate by spaces) / or options=inet6 in /etc/resolv.conf ? HTH, Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem

dig and host don't work in IPv6

Our agency has started using IPv6. My PC has IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. DNS servers are all IPv6 addresses. All of this works great, except that now the host and dig commands no longer work, even with -6: $ dig -6 cygwin.com ; <<>> DiG 9.11.9 <<>> -6 cygwin.com ;; global options: +cmd ;;