On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 08:20 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Dick Holland <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 07:10 -0500, Tom H wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Dick Holland <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > Sending "dig -t aaaa google.com" to my local DNS server: > >> > > >> > So the "no response" I guess means IPv6 is not supported by the server. > >> > > >> > Sending "dig -t aaaa google.com" to my ISP's DNS servers: > >> > > >> > No answer from the ISP either! So I guess that means they don't support > >> > IPv6 either. > >> > >> I don't think that google.com has an ipv6 address. I think that you > >> have to query ipv6.google.com. > > > > The test is not for google, it's to see if the ISP's DNS servers would > > respond to a request for an IPv6 AAAA record. > > google.com doesn't have an ipv6 address so your test is incorrect, > query your DNS server and your ISP's DNS server for ipv6.google.com > and compare the result to: > dig @8.8.8.8 -t aaaa google.com > and > dig @8.8.8.8 -t aaaa ipv6.google.com > or > dig @208.67.222.222 -t aaaa google.com > and > dig @208.67.222.222 -t aaaa ipv6.google.com OK, here are the results of the tests Tom proposed: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- dig @8.8.8.8 -t aaaa ipv6.google.com ; <<>> DiG 9.7.2-P2-RedHat-9.7.2-2.P2.fc14 <<>> @8.8.8.8 -t aaaa ipv6.google.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63171 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;ipv6.google.com. IN AAAA ;; Query time: 6 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Mon Jan 3 08:47:15 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 33 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- dig @208.67.222.222 -t aaaa google.com ; <<>> DiG 9.7.2-P2-RedHat-9.7.2-2.P2.fc14 <<>> @208.67.222.222 -t aaaa google.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34646 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;google.com. IN AAAA ;; Query time: 7 msec ;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222) ;; WHEN: Mon Jan 3 08:47:35 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 28 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- dig @208.67.222.222 -t aaaa ipv6.google.com ; <<>> DiG 9.7.2-P2-RedHat-9.7.2-2.P2.fc14 <<>> @208.67.222.222 -t aaaa ipv6.google.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39968 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;ipv6.google.com. IN AAAA ;; Query time: 8 msec ;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222) ;; WHEN: Mon Jan 3 08:47:46 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 33 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- So it looks like they all failed to return an IP address. Is that what you expected, Tom? -- Dick Holland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines