IPv6 only Jails cannot connect to the outside world

Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff niklaas at kulturflatrate.net
Mon Oct 5 11:34:13 UTC 2015


On 05/10/15 13:27, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 10:18:40AM +0200, Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff wrote:
>>
>> Thus it seems that, in an IPv6 only jail, I may not list IPv4
>> nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf because otherwise I get the weird error
>> that it cannot resolve the hostname although it actually can? Is that
>> intended?
>>
>> Probably I'm missing something.
> 
> % man 5 resolv.conf
> 
>      nameserver  Internet address (in dot notation) of a name server that the
>                  resolver should query.  Up to MAXNS (currently 3) name
>                  servers may be listed, one per keyword. [...]

Wow, thanks a lot for clarifying that. I would've never thought of the
fact that there is a limit to the amount of name servers that I may list
in resolv.conf.

Nevertheless, I could've checked in man 5 resolv.conf on my own though.
Anyway, I very much appreciate your help!

-- 
Niklaas


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