[BlueOnyx:11582] Re: IPv6 AAAA Record

[Chuck Tetlow]

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com> 
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it> 
Sent: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:40:50 -0500 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:11578] Re: IPv6 AAAA Record

> Matt James wrote: 
> > Hello everyone, 
> > 
> > I'm trying to add an AAAA record to a domain where the DNS is controlled 
> > through BlueOnyx.  Given that BX doesn't have this ability from the GUI, 
> > I was manually putting it in the .include file in named.  Unfortunately, 
> > even after restarting DNS, it doesn't appear to have taken hold. 
> > 
> > I tested it using: *host -a zeus.rainstormconsulting.com 
> > <http://zeus.rainstormconsulting.com> ns1.rainstormconsulting.com 
> > <http://ns1.rainstormconsulting.com>* and only received A and NS records.   
> > 
> > My include file reads: 
> > 
> > *; /var/named/chroot/var/named/db.rainstormconsulting.com.include 
> > ; user customizations can be added here. 
> > zeus.rainstormconsulting.com <http://zeus.rainstormconsulting.com> in 
> > aaaa 2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:e05a* 
> > 
> > Any ideas? 
> 
> Hi Matt, 
> Yes, fix the file so that it just includes the hostname, not the entire 
> FQDN. 
> 
> That should fix you up. 
> -- 
> Chris Gebhardt

Actually Chris - I've seen it work both ways, even inside a single zone file.  I've done my DNS tables by hand with VI for years, so I'm comfortable with that.  But others use tools like Webmin to make changes/additions.  Webmin has a bad habit of putting the entire HOSTNAME.FQDN in the zone file.  (That's also how I can tell what's been changed by someone else!).

Bind never seems to mind.  It works for those hostnames both before I take out the extra FQDN characters, and after.  So that shouldn't be causing his problem.

BUT...  What is a "AAAA" record?  The "A" record, I know.  But a "AAAA"????

Chuck

 
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