On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Nathan Lutchansky wrote: > Hi all, > > We've noticed that some sites like news.bbc.co.uk are running broken DNS > servers that return NXDOMAIN for AAAA queries rather than NOERROR with > zero answers. The NXDOMAIN reply indicates that there are no records of > any type for the requested name, which is clearly not true since A records > exist and are returned with an A query. > > Unfortunately, this means that applications that attempt AAAA queries are > unable to resolve addresses that reside within these broken servers. And > that includes WinXP with the IPv6 stack enabled. We would like to deploy > IPv6 on Windows XP machines here, but our users complain loudly when they > are not able to access BBC.
This would tend to explain some problems resolving some sites in Mozilla (0.9.8 to 0.9.9) on FreeBSD aswell. > Has anybody found a workaround for this problem? Judging by newsgroup > messages, BBC has known about this problem for months and has neglected to > fix it. At the very least, does anybody have an idea of how widespread is > this problem? -Nathan not that bad, so far i've only found problems resolving news.bbc.co.uk. to fight it, i've actually put its IP in /etc/hosts.. sadly, this may be the only way to fix things untill the broken DNS servers are fixed or replaced. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
