host unreachable resolving

Tue May 5 21:41:21 UTC 2009

On Tue, 5 May 2009, alexus wrote:

> i just deployed new bind-9.6.0-p1
> 
> and I'm getting a lot of these:
> 
> May  5 20:18:41 dd named[21037]: host unreachable resolving
> '128.235.241.88.zen.spamhaus.org/TXT/IN': 2001:7b8:3:1f:0:2:53:1#53

If you have IPv6 but don't use IPv6, see the named switch -4 "Use IPv4 
only even if the host machine is capable of IPv6.  -4 and -6 are mutually 
exclusive."

(I get the same types of messages on my personal NetBSD system since I 
don't have a IPv6 tunnel setup here.)

  Jeremy C. Reed
  ISC Sales & Support Engineer