[BlueOnyx:11585] Re: IPv6 AAAA Record

[Chuck Tetlow]

Ah Ha!  Four times the bytes, so four times the A's.  Cute....

Chuck

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From: Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com> 
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it> 
Sent: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:37:40 -0500 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:11584] Re: IPv6 AAAA Record

> Hi Chuck, 
> 
> Chuck Tetlow wrote: 
> > 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. 
> 
> Hmmmm.  I have always used only the hostname.  I've been doing that 
> since 1996 so I really can't tell you a rhyme or reason for it or that 
> one way is "right" and the other is "wrong."   Just that's always how 
> I've done it, and that's of course how BlueOnyx generates its zones as well. 
> 
> Someone else may care to research that one.  Or not.  ;) 
> 
> > BUT...  What is a "AAAA" record?  The "A" record, I know.  But a "AAAA"???? 
> 
> AAAA record = IPv6 A record 
> 
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