Hi,
For Solaris youhave to enable separately the name resolution for IPv6:
Putting ipv4/ipv6 addresses in
/etc/inet/ipnodes
and in /etc/nsswitch.conf Make sure 'ipnodes' line contains 'dns' entry so
that IPv6 hostname lookup can be performed through DNS in case that
resolution failed by looking up a local file.
/etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files dns
ipnodes: files dns
This is kind of brain damage in Solaris - why they invented ipnodes?
Regards,
Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Roy Smith wrote:
I'm on a Solaris-9 box. If I use nslookup or dig, I can resolve IPv6
hostnames:
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fusion:clsapi$ nslookup -type=aaaa 6bone.net.
Server: zeus.smarts.com
Address: 10.1.0.220
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: 6bone.net
Address: 2001:5c0:0:2::24
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but ping won't resolve the same name:
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fusion:clsapi$ ping -A inet6 6bone.net.
ping: unknown IPv6 host 6bone.net.
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Likewise, I wrote a little C program which uses getipnodebyname(), and it,
too, reports HOST_NOT_FOUND when I try to resolve 6bone.net.
My guess is that nslookup and dig get directly at the DNS layer, while
getipnodebyname() (and the command-line ping) are working at Sun's NSL layer,
which is probably mis-configured for IPv6. Unfortunately, I don't know
enough about NSL to 1) be sure my guess is correct or 2), know how to fix the
problem. Can anybody help with either or both of those?
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