IPv6 Lookups on BIND 9.5.1-P1 and .GOV Addresses

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 Jinmei_Tatuya at isc.org
Fri Jan 23 22:13:08 UTC 2009


At Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:09:37 +0000,
Stacey Jonathan Marshall <Stacey.Marshall at Sun.COM> wrote:

> BIND is suffering from http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6320428
> (sendto() should forward errors up the stack).  To provide relief from
> this issue the ISC have added additional command line options "-4" and
> "-6", as of bind 9.3.2,  which instruct BIND to limit requests to IP6 or IP4
> interfaces respectfully.

This should not be a problem for 9.5.1 any more: it uses connected UDP
sockets and should be able to get the feedback from the kernel
asynchronously.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.



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