Internal DNS and IPV6

[Peter Clark]

> On 15/09/12 14:40, Peter Clark wrote:
>> Does the internal DNS server support IPV6? Or is these errors something
>> from a malformed feed to nsupdate from samba_dnsupdate?
>>
>> Calling nsupdate for AAAA phouse.pclark.com ::1
>> Outgoing update query:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: UPDATE, status: NOERROR, id:      0
>> ;; flags:; ZONE: 0, PREREQ: 0, UPDATE: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>> ;; UPDATE SECTION:
>> phouse.pclark.com.      900     IN      AAAA    ::1
>>
>> ; Communication with 2001:470:896:1::2#53 failed: operation canceled
>> response to SOA query was unsuccessful
>> Failed nsupdate: 1
>> Calling nsupdate for AAAA c3po.phouse.pclark.com ::1
>> Outgoing update query:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: UPDATE, status: NOERROR, id:      0
>> ;; flags:; ZONE: 0, PREREQ: 0, UPDATE: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>> ;; UPDATE SECTION:
>> c3po.phouse.pclark.com. 900     IN      AAAA    ::1
>>
>> ; Communication with 2001:470:896:1::2#53 failed: operation canceled
>> dns_request_getresponse: FORMERR
>> Failed nsupdate: 1
>> Calling nsupdate for AAAA gc._msdcs.phouse.pclark.com ::1
>> Outgoing update query:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: UPDATE, status: NOERROR, id:      0
>> ;; flags:; ZONE: 0, PREREQ: 0, UPDATE: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>> ;; UPDATE SECTION:
>> gc._msdcs.phouse.pclark.com. 900 IN     AAAA    ::1
>>
>> ; Communication with 2001:470:896:1::2#53 failed: operation canceled
>> dns_request_getresponse: FORMERR
>> Failed nsupdate: 1
>> Failed update of 3 entries
>> [root at c3po samba]#
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Kai, just a thought, but isn't ::1 shorthand for the ipv6 version of
> 127.0.0.1, and as the internal dns server doesn't listen on 127.0.0.1, I
> don't suppose it listens on ::1 either.
>
> Rowland

Morning,

"Communication with 2001:470:896:1::2#53 failed:" - it looks to me like
it's trying to create an AAAA record for ::1 via the real interface IPV6
addr.