newbie for ipv6 dns setup

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Oct 8 02:05:23 UTC 2003


> We have the need to set up a dns to server the Internet2 (i.e.
> IPV6) network
> I know nothing about ipv6 (in fact i'm not the network guy, just one
> who supports unix servers and it happens the dns server must be on
> one of the  unix boxes I maintain) and so am strange to those
> ipv6 jargon and terms.
> 
> I have setup dns server for ipv4 using bind9.2.x
> Could someone kindly outline the extra steps to set one up
> for ipv6 network.
> 

	Add "liston-on-v6 { any; };" to options.  You may also want
	to set "match-mapped-addresses yes;" as Linux's IPv6 stack
	is broken.  It steals IPv4 packets and delivers them as
	mapped addresses despite there being specific IPv4 sockets
	open.

	Also add AAAA records as appropriate.
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