Because nslookup and dig are specialised DNS testing tools. They don’t use getaddrinfo to perform test lookups. getaddrinfo is the function that most applications use as part of the connection process.
> On 12 Apr 2018, at 8:33 am, Rick Tillery <rtilleryw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'll give those tools a try, but I don't understand how my client is > requesting an A record. It only has IPv6 networking. DNS64 should be > requesting an A record, but that the client should see is the converted AAAA > record. Is that not right? > > Rick > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 5:27 PM Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote: > On Apr 11, 2018, at 3:09 PM, Rick Tillery <rtilleryw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I appear to have my NAT64+DN64 IPv6 -> IPv4 network configured correctly, > > as I can access IPv4 only Internet sites, e.g. from my browser. But some > > tools don't seem to work the way I think they should. > > > > One example is nslookup. If do nslookup ipv4.google.com, I get: > > > > $ nslookup ipv4.google.com > > Server: 2001:4:1f:98::2 > > Address: 2001:4:1f:98::2#53 > > > > Non-authoritative answer: > > ipv4.google.com canonical name = ipv4.l.google.com. > > Name: ipv4.l.google.com > > Address: 216.58.218.110 > > > > Shouldn't the address (last line) be an IPv6 address (prefixed IPv4 > > address, created by NAT64, such as 64:ff9b::216.58.218.110)? > > Nope. Whether your local system connects to IPv4 addresses via > NAT64-formatted IPv6 addresses is unrelated to DNS lookups of A or AAAA > records. If you ask for an A record, you will get IPv4 address(es) back or 0 > records, not an IPv6 address. > > By the way, debugging DNS issues by using nslookup is difficult; try > switching to dig and consider the results of running "dig -t a > ipv4.l.google.com." and "dig -t aaaa ipv4.l.google.com." > > Regards, > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe > from this list > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
