On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Doug Barton <dougb_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > Nicolas Blais wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > On a 8-CURRENT machine and a 7.2-STABLE machine, whenever the command > "dig > > -6 xxxx" is issued, the following error is printed: > > Given that you appear to only have an IPv4 server in your > /etc/resolv.conf file, why would you expect that to work? The -4 and > -6 flags are only relevant when you are using a name server hostname > that has both A and AAAA records. > > That said, I agree that the error message is less than graceful, > although dig is apparently trying to be helpful in converting what > you've given it into the best IPv6 format it can think of to try and > do what you told it to do. > > > hth, > > Doug > My bad then. Oddly enough, I can resolve correctly ipv6-only domains (from the ipv4 dns list in resolv.conf), so I was wondering why dig couldn't give me the output I asked. Thanks, Nicolas.Received on Tue May 26 2009 - 16:39:52 UTC
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