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Ah Ha! Four times the bytes, so four times the A's. Cute....
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<br />Chuck
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From: Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts@virtbiz.com>
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To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it>
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Sent: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:37:40 -0500
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:11584] Re: IPv6 AAAA Record
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<br />> Hi Chuck,
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Chuck Tetlow wrote:
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> Actually Chris - I've seen it work both ways, even inside a single zone
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> file. I've done my DNS tables by hand with VI for years, so I'm
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> comfortable with that. But others use tools like Webmin to make
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> changes/additions. Webmin has a bad habit of putting the entire
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> HOSTNAME.FQDN in the zone file. (That's also how I can tell what's
been
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> changed by someone else!).
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>
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> Bind never seems to mind. It works for those hostnames both before I
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> take out the extra FQDN characters, and after. So that shouldn't be
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> causing his problem.
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Hmmmm. I have always used only the hostname. I've been doing that
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since 1996 so I really can't tell you a rhyme or reason for it or that
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one way is "right" and the other is "wrong." Just
that's always how
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I've done it, and that's of course how BlueOnyx generates its zones as well.
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Someone else may care to research that one. Or not. ;)
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> BUT... What is a "AAAA" record? The "A"
record, I know. But a "AAAA"????
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AAAA record = IPv6 A record
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Chris Gebhardt
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