DNS not working in Fedora 14

[Dick Holland]

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 01:20 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> 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.

Oh, I understood that message meant that the DNS server wouldn't enquire
of other servers automatically if it didn't know the IP address of the
domain.

So if that proves that the glibc bug you suspected is indeed there,
Gordon, what's the next step for us to take?

-- 
Dick Holland