misc/78565: Default FreeBSD 5.3 named setup has problems resolving names due to IPv6 issues

[Roy Badami]

The following reply was made to PR misc/78565; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roy Badami <roy at gnomon.org.uk>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/78565: Default FreeBSD 5.3 named setup has problems
	resolving names due to IPv6 issues
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:49:20 +0000

 I should add that this problem also affects the bind9 port in FreeBSD
 4.  I'm not sure whether it effects the BIND 8 install in the base
 FreeBSD 4 system (I suspect not [1], but I'm not immediately in a
 position to verify it).
 
 Another good way to demonstrate the problem is with dig, which suffers
 from the same problem as named
 
 The command
 
 dig @a.gtld-servers.net foo.com
 
 will fail to get a response, because a.gtld-servers.net is
 IPv6-connected.
 
 	-roy
 
 [1] I note that /usr/bin/dig doesn't suffer from this on FreeBSD 4.10,
 but that /usr/local/bin/dig (built from the bind9 port) does; hence
 the suspicion that BIND 8's named won't suffer from this either.