nsupdate.exe and IPv6

Cathy Almond cathya at isc.org
Mon Nov 23 10:15:54 UTC 2009


Chris Hills wrote:
> Hi
> 
> It seems nsupdate.exe in 9.6.1-P1 does not properly locate IPv6
> nameservers.
> 
> C:\Temp\bind-9.6.1-P1>dig +short ns-v6-1.chaz6.com. in aaaa
> 2001:16d8:dd22:38::2
> 2001:16d8:ee0f:38::2
> 
> C:\Temp\bind-9.6.1-P1>nsupdate
>> server 2001:16d8:dd22:38::2
>> update add localhost.dyn.ipv6.chaz6.com. 7200 IN AAAA ::
>>
>> quit
> 
> C:\Temp\bind-9.6.1-P1>nsupdate
>> update delete localhost.dyn.ipv6.chaz6.com.
>>
> couldn't get address for 'ns-v6-1.chaz6.com': not found
> 
> The same works fine from Linux:-
> 
> $ rpmquery --whatprovides `which nsupdate`
> bind-utils-9.6.1P1-4.1.i586
> $ nsupdate
>> update add localhost.dyn.ipv6.chaz6.com. 7200 IN AAAA ::1
>>
>> update delete localhost.dyn.ipv6.chaz6.com.
>>
>> quit
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
> P.S. Is there a proper bug reporting address? I could not find it on the
> website.
> 

Chris - thanks for this - we've picked it up and made a bug report
ourselves.  But for future reference, our BIND mailing addresses are
summarised here:

https://www.isc.org/software/bind/news

Cathy





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