Strange errors from BIND on FreeBSD 4.x system

[Odhiambo Washington]

* On 05/07/06 11:57 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
| I'm working with a client's FreeBSD system (4.9 with patches) which is having trouble resolving certain domains 
| but not others. When I try to execute the same queries using "dig", I see the error message
| 
| res_nsend: Protocol not supported
| 
| Via various search engines, I've seen hints that the problem may have something to do with IPV6 but no 
| instructions as to how to resolve it. Can anyone explain what's wrong and how to fix it?

Which Bind version?

From this thread:
http://listserv2.cfi.co.ug/pipermail/afnog/2005-May/000759.html,

I think you should try the following:

cd /usr/ports/dns/bind9
make -DWITH_PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9 install clean

(That will give you bind-9.3.2)

Try again and update us.

The installation of bind-9.3.2 can be undone, so don't fear :-)


-Wash

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