DNS not working in Fedora 14

[Gordon Messmer]

On 01/02/2011 03:27 AM, Dick Holland wrote:
> OK, here are the results of making IPv6 type AAAA DNS requests.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sending "dig -t aaaa google.com" to my local DNS server:
>
> ;<<>>  DiG 9.7.2-P2-RedHat-9.7.2-2.P2.fc14<<>>  -t aaaa google.com
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39018
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's what I was looking for.  That warning indicates (AFAIK) that your 
DNS server doesn't support IPv6.  That probably means that a bug in 
glibc prevents it from looking up IPv4 records when the DNS servers 
listed in resolv.conf don't support IPv6.