BIND 9 AAAA record problems

[Kevin Darcy]

wbwither at bobball.uchicago.edu wrote:

>Hello list,
>
>I'm having trouble when a client requests an AAAA record for my site.  I
>don't have any AAAA records, only A records.  (fyi: the site is
>www.efori.com)
>I have gone from BIND 8.3.7 to 8.4.1 to 9.2.2 on FreeBSD 4.9 in order to
>try to fix this.  Obviously I've got something wrong elsewhere since none
>of these versions of BIND has worked.  On Mozilla/Linux, I can trace 4
>AAAA query, 5 seconds apart, to my ISP's DNS server.  Only after these 4
>have failed do I send an A query.  My dumb Windows machine will connect
>immediately, as it only sends A queries.  AAAA queries for other domains
>on my ISP's DNS server resolve as they should, so it's not their fault
>either.
>I know that BIND should return an empty, non-error response.  But what do
>I need to configure in order for this to happen?
>
My BIND 9 nameserver has no problem giving a NODATA response to a AAAA 
query, even without any special configuration.

I think you have some sort of firewall issue. I can traceroute your 
nameservers, but I'm getting "port unreachable" when trying to query 
them....

                                                                         
                                 - Kevin