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| Newer page: | version 18 | Last edited on Sunday, November 28, 2004 11:44:01 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 15 | Last edited on Wednesday, November 24, 2004 3:55:42 pm | by MikeBeattie | Revert |
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[DNS] does more than just that (a ForwardLookup) though -- there are different types of ResourceRecord~s. It is usually provided by a program called named(8) -- commonly a version of bind, the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon.
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This is pasted here from a conversation on IRC because this information is important but I don't have time to sit down and write it up as a nice paragraph, it should also have it's facts verified:
<verbatim>
<Isomer> people set up dns so that replies don't come from the same ip sometimes
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<quantum_> and does nothing else, so is (hopefully) mostly secure
<Isomer> you run bind as root?
<quantum_> (maybe they do this, i dont admin any bind nameservers, nor have looked at the source)
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+More crud, from the deleted page about the A6 ResourceRecord:
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+I tried setting this up at home
- debian woody, bind9. I could do host -t A6 $domain fine, and host -t A6 $host.$domain worked too, although it returned the fragment for the host and the domain name as part of the record - not what its supposed to do. Glibc under debian woody doesn't appear to support it, and its listed as a bug as of June 15 2003, tagged 'wishlist'. Pity too, as A6 addressing makes a LOT of sense for dynamic IP.
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+I had:
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+<verbatim>
+$ORIGIN element.tla.
+test 10 IN A6 0 2002:6to4:prefix::
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+$ORIGIN test.element.tla.
+helium 10 IN A6 0 ::1 test.element.tla.
+</verbatim>
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+which is how I interpreted the bind9 docs on setting up A6 addressing. If i'm doing this wrong let me know. -- DanielLawson
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+''Some name servers (bind9?) support <tt>A6</tt> -> <tt>AAAA</tt> translations, can this be enabled?''
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+''I can find no mention of this. Bind9 supports A6 addresses in full, which are essentially identical to AAAA addresses, but thats not what I want''
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See also:
* NameServer
* NamedNotes
* [DNSHowTo]
