DNS not working in Fedora 14

[Dick Holland]

On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 08:20 -0500, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Dick Holland <fedora at xegetix.com> 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 at xegetix.com> 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

Oops - I forgot the results of the first test; sorry.

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dig @8.8.8.8 -t aaaa google.com


; <<>> DiG 9.7.2-P2-RedHat-9.7.2-2.P2.fc14 <<>> @8.8.8.8 -t aaaa
google.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40250
;; 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: 19 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan  3 08:47:05 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 28

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Dick Holland