Re: Using IPv6/IPv4 tunnels to send queries to a DNS server

2011-11-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Hansen Candrawinata writes: > Thanks for the responses. > > Can a DNS server (the machine, not BIND) be a tunnel endpoint > for 6to4? Yes, provided it meets all the criteria for being a 6to4 tunnel end point. You need a non ambious IPv4 address for the tunnel end point. If your I

Re: Using IPv6/IPv4 tunnels to send queries to a DNS server

2011-11-10 Thread Hansen Candrawinata
Thanks for the responses. Can a DNS server (the machine, not BIND) be a tunnel endpoint for 6to4? Thanks, Hansen On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Hansen Candrawinata wrote: > This is not strictly a BIND related question, but thought someone here > probably knew the answer. > > Is it valid to u

RE: Using IPv6/IPv4 tunnels to send queries to a DNS server

2011-11-09 Thread Gaurav Kansal
Ya. It is totally valid. In fact we have tested the same in our organization for giving internet connectivity to ipv6 islands. What tunnel do is, it basically encapsulate the ipv6 packet in ipv4 header. So a packet reach its destination,( i.e, tunnel destination), transparently. And at the destina

Re: Using IPv6/IPv4 tunnels to send queries to a DNS server

2011-11-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Hansen Candrawinata wrote: > This is not strictly a BIND related question, but thought someone here > probably knew the answer. > > Is it valid to use IPv6/IPv4 tunnels to send DNS queries to a DNS server. > > Does anyone know what the standards (RFCs) say about thi