Author: Marc Sherman Date: To: Laurent Fousse CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] [Debian normal bug #296492] exim4: remote_smtp transport
should fallback to ipv4 with fallback_hosts too
Laurent Fousse wrote: >>
>>When I look in the DNS, I find only an A record for those hosts. Where
>>are you getting the IPv6 address from?
>
>
> I manage the zone file and manually set the AAAA record there.
>
> laurent@frutti:~$ host -t aaaa nowwhat.lateralis.org
> nowwhat.lateralis.org has AAAA address 2001:838:300:2ab::2
>
> Manually querying each of the three listed NS servers yields the same.
> The query was tested on three different hosts including one without
> IPv6 address.
For what it's worth, I'm seeing both addresses:
msherman@pyloric:~$ host nowwhat.lateralis.org
nowwhat.lateralis.org has address 81.56.190.81
msherman@pyloric:~$ host -t aaaa nowwhat.lateralis.org
nowwhat.lateralis.org has AAAA address 2001:838:300:2ab::2
