[BlueOnyx:11583] Re: IPv6 AAAA Record

[Gerald Waugh]

On 10/22/2012 03:27 PM, Chuck Tetlow wrote:
> *---------- 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 
> <http://zeus.rainstormconsulting.com/>> ns1.rainstormconsulting.com
> > > <http://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 
> <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 
> beenchanged 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"????
>
IPV6 ip address 2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:e05a


-- 
Gerald

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