[erlang-questions] : : Broken ipv6 behavior?

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 05:05:56PM +0200, Rory Byrne wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:41:40AM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Rory Byrne <rory@REDACTED> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:04:11AM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> > >  >
> > >  > These functions seem to work on a MacOS X Leopard box
> > >  > in our lab, there I get:
> > >  > inet_gethost_native:gethostbyname("ipv6.google.com", inet6).
> > >  > inet_gethost[63317] (DEBUG):Saved domainname .google.com.
> > >  > inet_gethost[63317] (DEBUG):Created worker[63418] with fd 3
> > >  > inet_gethost[63317] (DEBUG):Saved domainname .google.com.
> > >  > inet_gethost[63418] (DEBUG):Worker got request, op = 1, proto = 2, data = ipv6.google.com.
> > >  > {error,notfound}
> > >  >
> > >  > Not strange since we do not have working IPv6 here at work.
> > >  >
> > >
> > >  Is this only {error,notfound} when you use an {inet6, true}
> > >  configuration? There should be no problem looking up AAAA
> > >  DNS records over IPv4:
> > 
> > Testing at home with OS X (IPv6 link-local access only), I get
> > {error,notfound} with or without {inet6, true}.
> > 
> > ipv6.google.com's AAAA records still resolve fine with dig/host/etc.
> >
> 
> Might be a problem. I'm guessing that most people are 
> going to expect to resolve all their DNS queries over 
> IPv4 for many years to come. I would have assumed the 
> following:
> 
> . Using {inet6, false} should mean: only query IPv4 DNS 
>   servers. It shouldn't effect what you can query, so you 
>   should be able to get AAAA records without a problem.
> 
> . Using {inet6, true} should mean: use an IPv6 DNS server
>   to resolve queries if one is configured. Failing that,
>   use any IPv4 DNS servers that are configured. Again,
>   the content of your query should not be effected.
> 
> Not saying that this is the way it should be, just that
> this would have been my initial assumption.
> 
> Anyway, it appears that the problem is on the link 
> between erlang and the local resolver. However, if 

Or the local resolver configuration.

> your planning on doing any elaborate debugging on 
> this stuff, it might be worth keeping in mind that 
> none of google's DNS servers have IPv6 addresses, 
> so all queries to them will ultimately go over IPv4. 
> The DNS servers for kame.net do have IPv6 addresses 
> (eg: dig -6 aaaa www.kame.net @orange.kame.net). 

In that case I can report that:
1> inet:gethostbyname("orange.kame.net", inet6).
{ok,{hostent,"orange.kame.net",[],inet6,16,
             [{0,0,0,0,0,65535,52146,36290}]}}
works on:
Darwin hostname 9.2.2 Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar  4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
Which should be MacOS X Leopard

> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Rory
> 
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