The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

Sat Jun 30 09:09:46 UTC 2007

On 30-jun-2007, at 7:04, Stephen Satchell wrote:

> That includes DNS, by the way.  I'm deploying new DNS servers, and  
> would be *very* interested in how to convince BIND 9.2.4 to answer  
> IPv6 queries.

If you give the box BIND runs on an IPv6 address, it'll use IPv6 to  
perform queries when remote nameservers have IPv6 glue records. If  
you have your DNS server's address put into glue records, it will  
receive IPv6 queries and hence send out replies over IPv6.

More info:

http://www.apress.com/book/supplementDownload.html?bID=10026&sID=3120